Effectively Wild Episode 1112: The Insulting Infield
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Astros’ almost insulting infield alignment against Albert Pujols and minor league hit-by-pitch machine Nick Sinay, then welcome on MIT draftee/new Mariners front-office addition David Hesslink and, later in the episode, YouTube baseball-highlight creator Andrew Vargha, proprietor of the newly anointed official baseball YouTube account of Effectively Wild.
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| 0:00.0 | Deep in, deep in, deep in, deep in Go home! |
| 0:05.0 | Deep in, deep in, deep in Go home! |
| 0:10.5 | I'm coming, coming, coming Go home! |
| 0:16.1 | What I'm doing, doing, doing! |
| 0:19.5 | I'm not gonna get you in the wild! |
| 0:22.1 | What I'm doing, going, going, going! |
| 0:23.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 1112 |
| 0:27.1 | of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Faggress |
| 0:30.3 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.4 | I am Ben Lemberg of the Rinner joined by Jeff Sullivan |
| 0:35.5 | on Faggress. Hello! |
| 0:36.6 | Hi! We are pre-recording this episode by a couple days. |
| 0:40.2 | Hopefully we won't be burned by that, |
| 0:42.2 | but we have a couple good guests lined up. |
| 0:44.8 | First, we're gonna talk to David Hesslink, |
| 0:47.0 | who is the newest member of the Mariners front office. |
| 0:50.1 | He's a baseball operations assistant, |
| 0:51.8 | and he is, I suppose, a recently retired player, too. |
| 0:55.0 | He just finished his first and, I suppose, only pro-season. |
| 0:59.8 | He was drafted by the Mariners out of MIT, |
| 1:02.4 | so he does not have the typical background |
| 1:05.0 | of a 22-year-old baseball operations assistant. |
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