Effectively Wild Episode 1159: The Reverse DePodesta
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh talks to FanGraphs’ newest hire, Meg Rowley, about her transition to full-time baseball writing, becoming a professional writer after starting out in a very different occupation, and her gravitation toward increasingly less lucrative industries. Then Ben, Meg, and ESPN’s Bill Barnwell talk to Minnesota Twins Director of Baseball Operations Daniel Adler about Adler’s recent move from football front offices to a baseball front office and how the two sports differ in work culture, their embrace of analysis, statistics, and technology, their respective risks of injury, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate the yummy and I hate the sick alright, yeah |
| 0:05.0 | I don't wanna go, I fight in the jungle, you |
| 0:10.0 | I hate to say about something stupid, I won't open my phone for you |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, we're up until there is a one I never know |
| 0:20.0 | Every jump I have for you is to keep you up to the dock |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, we're up until there is a one I never know |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1159 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:31.0 | a baseball podcast from Fangress presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:35.0 | I am Ben Limberg of the ringer Jeff Sullivan of Fangress on vacation |
| 0:40.0 | So I am joined by the newest full-time employee of Fangress |
| 0:44.0 | and I'm very happy to say that, Meg Gretley, hey Meg, congratulations |
| 0:47.0 | Thank you, you're the first person in my family |
| 0:51.0 | who isn't in my family I should say, so that out loud, it's folks flating |
| 0:54.0 | Part of the Fangress family, so the plan today oddly enough is to talk about football |
| 1:01.0 | We're gonna be joined by my old Grantland colleague and friend Bill Barnwell |
| 1:04.0 | and he and you and I are gonna talk to Daniel Adler |
| 1:07.0 | who is the director of baseball operations for the Minnesota twins |
| 1:10.0 | but is also a recent veteran of multiple NFL front offices |
| 1:14.0 | so we're gonna discuss the differences between the two sports |
| 1:17.0 | and their cultures and how much or how little they've embraced analytics |
| 1:21.0 | until one has been very depressing of late |
| 1:24.0 | and the other fortunately less so |
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