Effectively Wild Episode 1142: The Shohei Ohtani Assignment
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a slow week in baseball and the likely effects of MLB’s impending pitch clock, then talk to former front-office executive (and former FanGraphs writer) Tony Blengino about how baseball brain trusts could and should be crafting their responses to the seven questions that Shohei Ohtani’s agent recently sent to teams.
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Audio interstitial: Randy Newman, "Memo to My Son"
Audio outro: Fleetwood Mac, "Homework"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Please get right out, the words I long to me Till you come back home |
| 0:11.2 | This heart will never roam, or die, or leave |
| 0:17.5 | No, I won't leave, or leave |
| 0:27.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1142 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:32.5 | BigBaseBall podcast with thin grass presented by our patrons, |
| 0:35.8 | borders and family member of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of BigGas. |
| 0:40.1 | Slow! |
| 0:41.1 | Hello, so teams actually left us alone. |
| 0:43.3 | Let us enjoy our Thanksgiving. |
| 0:45.1 | It was a slow end of the week and weekend. |
| 0:48.5 | Even Jerry DePoto did not make a move, although he did start a podcast. |
| 0:52.7 | He's coming for us now. |
| 0:55.7 | He's giving us material all these years, but now he's a direct competitor. |
| 1:00.7 | So we're gunning for you, Jerry. |
| 1:02.7 | And I wonder, he may not realize podcasts are pretty time-consuming. |
| 1:06.7 | As you now know, I wonder if he'll have time for as many transactions. |
| 1:10.7 | I have not made a single major league trade since I started this podcast. |
| 1:14.7 | So it can really eat up your time. |
| 1:16.7 | I hope this does not preclude him from his usual activities. |
| 1:19.7 | Well, you have run drafts on your podcast, which is effectively the same kind of thing. |
| 1:23.7 | I wonder if he, let's say hypothetically, first of all, it's weird. |
| 1:28.7 | Jerry DePoto was a general manager. |
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