Effectively Wild Episode 1618: Robinson Canozolol

November 20, 2020

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Representative Cedric Richmond’s retirement from the Congressional Baseball Game after a Ruthian two-way career, discuss Theo Epstein stepping down from the Cubs (and at least temporarily leaving baseball) and Robinson Cano getting suspended for the entire 2021 season after testing positive for steroid use, and share a Stat Blast about the first ever-LOOGY.

Audio intro: The Nerves, “Working Too Hard“
Audio outro: Chance The Rapper, “Same Drugs“

Link to Nathaniel on the Congressional Baseball Game
Link to Nathaniel’s EW interview episode
Link to Tom Verducci on Theo
Link to Joe Posnanski on Theo
Link to Theo’s farewell letter
Link to Theo’s comment on aesthetics
Link to 2016 EW discussion about Theo
Link to story about Cubs layoffs
Link to story about Dodgers layoffs
Link to Jay Jaffe on Cano’s suspension
Link to Ken Rosenthal on Cano’s suspension
Link to story about 2020 PED testing
Link to Ben on Cano’s 2018 suspension
Link to Geoff Baker on Cano’s 2018 suspension
Link to the Boston Globe on PED pressures
Link to THT article on the origins of the LOOGY
Link to Ben on LOOGYs and the three-batter minimum