Effectively Wild Episode 1156: The Winners and Losers of MLB’s Next Five Years
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the last episode of 2017, Ben Lindbergh and guests Joe Sheehan and Rany Jazayerli analyze the Rockies’ Wade Davis signing and offseason attempt to build a super-bullpen, then reprise an old exercise by picking (and dissecting) the teams they think will win the World Series in the next five years and the teams they think won’t make the playoffs in the next four years, discussing the future of rebuilding, the vast divide between baseball’s best and worst teams, and much more along the way.
Audio intro: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, "Come and Be a Winner"
Audio outro: The Strokes, "I Can’t Win"
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes people, we treat you like one out of you |
| 0:05.5 | But they don't know that you can lose |
| 0:10.4 | Come and be a winner |
| 0:15.4 | Come and be a winner |
| 0:20.5 | Come and be a winner |
| 0:25.7 | Come and be a winner |
| 0:27.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 1156 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangrass |
| 0:36.4 | Presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Mimberg of the Ringer joined not today by Jeff |
| 0:41.9 | Sullivan who is wisely on vacation but by two people who joined me around this time last year |
| 0:48.8 | two old friends long-time podcast partners of their own former founders and still founders, |
| 0:56.9 | co-founders of baseball perspectives. One is Jo sheen of the Jo sheen newsletter and the athletic |
| 1:02.7 | and sports illustrated and elsewhere hello Joe Ben all I'm sitting here I'm like talk faster |
| 1:07.6 | because I always listen to you on one and a half speed. Damn it joys he took my joke away from me. |
| 1:12.9 | Why is he speaking so slowly? Yeah good to be honest is Jeff climbing some mountain today? |
| 1:19.6 | I think so yes good for you'll speak fast enough for the both of us I know so that's good |
| 1:26.2 | and the other guest who has already given away his presence here also of the Ringer sometimes |
| 1:31.9 | and more regularly I suppose of clear skin dermatology and uh yeah one time strat partner as well |
| 1:39.5 | Rani just say Rani hey Rani how are you? I'm good Ben and and if people out there think that |
| 1:45.0 | Jo and I sometimes have a mind mel I don't think we've done anything to disabuse them of that notion |
| 1:50.0 | because I've been waiting to mention the the 1.5x joke all day and Jo just snatched it away from me |
| 1:57.0 | so it's very strange talking to you at this speed yes I know well I'll try to hurry up but I can't |
| 2:03.0 | do it so much so I was on Brian Kenny's show yesterday Friday MLB now and we were emailing |
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