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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1133: Lessons to Learn (and Unlearn) from October

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Shohei Otani, the Players Association, and a trio of opt-ins, then discuss whether tanking is bad for baseball and which conclusions can and can’t be drawn from the rebuilds, roster constructions, and in-game tactics of this season’s successful playoff teams. Audio intro: Neuseiland, "When You Get Back from the […]

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I never noticed just to tell me you

0:08.0

I only know they play two games

0:15.0

And when you get back from the world

0:23.0

The star will be born now

0:33.0

Here you are

0:36.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1133 of Effectively Wild

0:40.0

a baseball podcast from Fingrass presented by Powered Patreon supporters

0:44.0

and Ben Lindbergh of The Ring Earth joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fingrass

0:48.0

So Jeff, why did you finish Narcos?

0:50.0

Yes, although not in one day I was thinking maybe I could do the one day marathon

0:54.0

but it took me a few minutes to finish the second

0:56.0

But it was a good, very good, I did not

0:58.0

But I played a lot of video games

1:00.0

And I thought a little bit about baseball in the few minutes before we started recording this podcast

1:06.0

and based on that thinking

1:08.0

We've got some news that we could talk about

1:11.0

I think we should just quickly follow up on our showy-o-tiny discussion

1:15.0

from the most recent episode

1:17.0

because I think we left out an element of that that was also in Joel Sherman's New York Post report

1:22.0

that I think is worth mentioning

1:24.0

We talked about how the posting agreement, the system expired this year

1:29.0

the system whereby a team in Japan that wants to post a player gets $20 million

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