Successfully Wild Episode 2180: Passing the Biggest-Residing-Participant Torch

Ben Lindbergh, Rany Jazayerli, and Neil Paine focus on the loss of life of Willie Mays, Mays because the final legendary hyperlink to an earlier period, the statistical instances for Mays as the best all-around participant (and best participant, interval) in main league historical past, and (36:45) baseball’s new best residing participant, plus (46:02) banter about Kansas courting the Royals with public funding and the aggressive trajectories of the Royals and Mets. Then (1:01:08) Ben brings on frequent Stat Blast correspondent Ryan Nelson for Stat Blasts about groups that hover close to .500, pitchers changing same-surnamed pitchers, probably the most prolific umpire-player ejection combos, probably the most gamers with the identical first identify in the identical sport, and Alex Verdugo’s grounders.

Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Successfully Wild Theme”

Hyperlink to Rany’s Mays article
Hyperlink to Neil’s Mays article
Hyperlink to FG’s Mays obit
Hyperlink to Mays assertion
Hyperlink to Manfred assertion on Mays
Hyperlink to Carig on Mays
Hyperlink to Mays fielding stoop
Hyperlink to EW 1927 on Mays
Hyperlink to B-Ref profession WAR leaders
Hyperlink to Ben on high quality of competitors
Hyperlink to Posnanski on the GLP
Hyperlink to EW 2161 on public funding
Hyperlink to Kansas funding particulars
Hyperlink to deMause on Kansas funding
Hyperlink to race to the underside wiki
Hyperlink to FG playoff odds
Hyperlink to BP playoff odds
Hyperlink to BaseRuns standings
Hyperlink to Grimace explainer
Hyperlink to Neil on crew true expertise
Hyperlink to Neil on Witt and Brett
Hyperlink to Neil’s Substack
Hyperlink to Podracing podcast
Hyperlink to Kauffman Nook podcast
Hyperlink to Mike Conte’s Stat Blast cowl
Hyperlink to Langs on .500 groups
Hyperlink to Ben on .500 groups
Hyperlink to .500 groups/Ryne Stat Blast
Hyperlink to Kelly/Alexander sport
Hyperlink to Retrosheet ejections information
Hyperlink to ejections Stat Blast information
Hyperlink to ejections-per-G graph
Hyperlink to SABR on ejections
Hyperlink to Evers wiki
Hyperlink to “Baseball’s Unhappy Lexicon”
Hyperlink to “Luis” sport
Hyperlink to The Bob Emergency
Hyperlink to same-names information
Hyperlink to swimmer David Younger
Hyperlink to 2024 grounder leaders
Hyperlink to 2021-4 grounder leaders
Hyperlink to 2019-24 grounder leaders
Hyperlink to ballpark meetup kinds
Hyperlink to meetup organizer type