Effectively Wild Episode 1149: The Winter Meetings That Were
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Jeff’s Winter Meetings experience and then discuss everything that did and didn’t go down while the baseball world was in Orlando, including the Reds’ published pitch to Shohei Ohtani, Ohtani’s injury status, the Marcell Ozuna, Stephen Piscotty, and Ian Kinsler trades (and the leveled-up Angels), Manny Machado trade rumors, and more.
Audio intro: The Apples in Stereo, "Where We Meet"
Audio outro: Macy Gray, "I Can’t Wait to Meetchu"
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| 0:00.0 | Woah, woah haw, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Bang! |
| 0:22.6 | Hello, and hello! |
| 0:24.4 | 2 episode 1149 of Effectively Wilder Baseball Podcasts from the Bang Grasper's |
| 0:29.5 | Infantite Art Patreon supporters. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm Ben Lemberg of The Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Bang Grasper's |
| 0:35.6 | back-bring Florida of Longtime and Talk. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello! |
| 0:38.9 | God, it's been too long. |
| 0:39.9 | It's been like five days. |
| 0:40.9 | I missed you, Ben. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah, it turns out that Winter Meetings week slash Star Wars week is not all that conducive |
| 0:47.0 | to podcasting, but we're catching up now, so we're gonna do a Winter Meetings in Review, |
| 0:52.1 | Winter Meetings wrap up kind of episode, talk about all the stuff that happened or was |
| 0:56.6 | rumored to happen and might still happen or didn't happen. |
| 0:59.6 | What happened to you personally? |
| 1:01.1 | How is your Winter Meetings? |
| 1:02.6 | Do any good schmoozing? |
| 1:04.1 | Anyone offer you many Machado? |
| 1:06.1 | No, no. |
| 1:07.1 | Really? |
| 1:08.1 | Okay. |
| 1:09.1 | No, it's a- |
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