Effectively Wild Episode 2532: Can the Public Still Teach Teams?

After a brief PSA about an open producer position (email wanted@fangraphs.com with the subject line &#8220;Podcast Editor 2026&#8221; to apply) Ben Lindbergh (kind of) continues his quest to temporarily resurrect a few dearly departed baseball podcasts by bringing on MLB.com&#8217;s Mike Petriello, former host of Ballpark Dimensions, to banter about a record home run trot, which &#8220;Statcast era&#8221; records they&#8217;re most confident are also all-time records, Junior Caminero&#8217;s defense and the value of small-sample defensive splits, the latest Statcast tools, Statcast WAR, predictive vs. descriptive stats, a divisive standing ovation for Pete Alonso at Citi Field, and this week&#8217;s White Sox-Guardians series. Then (58:25) Ben chats with former Astros AGM Andrew Ball and former Phillies quantitative analyst Tom Kim about Tom&#8217;s new command metric, OpenCommand, whether public baseball research still has something to teach teams, the public-private knowledge gap, and overrated secrets. Audio&nbsp;intro: Philip Bergman, &#8220;Effectively Wild Theme&#8221; Audio&nbsp;interstitial: The Spaghettis, &#8220;Effectively Wild Theme&#8221; Audio&nbsp;outro: Justin Peters, &#8220;Effectively Wild Theme&#8221; Link to Ballpark Dimensions podcast archive Link to Caminero trot Link to Caminero LIDOM trot Link to Langs post Link to Tater Trot Tracker Link to exit-speed contributions Link to Mike&#8217;s post on Caminero&#8217;s defense Link to Mike on the Williams homer Link to Mike&#8217;s last EW appearance Link to 2024 bat tracking Link to 2025 swing tracking Link to Nats farm system article Link to 2026 scoops article <a href="https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/first-base-scoops-receiving?type=fielder_3&amp;season%5B%5D=2026&amp;splitYear=0&amp;min=q&amp;minSplit=1&amp;gameType%5B%5D=R&amp;dateStart=&amp;dateEnd=&amp;is_hit_into_play_field_out=&amp;fielder_3_hand=&amp;min_height_in_inches=&amp;showColumn=outs&amp;viz_players=665489&amp;viz_selected_idx=0&amp;_gl=1*4b75mk*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3ODc1OTUy