Effectively Wild Episode 1163: Engaged in Trade Talks
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and a newly engaged Jeff Sullivan banter about Jeff’s absence and return, Willson Contreras and Jon Lester, and the Astros’ and Giants’ ends of the Gerrit Cole and Andrew McCutchen trades, respectively. Then they bring on FanGraphs writer Travis Sawchik to break down the Pirates’ past, present, and future, including their returns in the aforementioned trades, the ways in which baseball has caught up with the Pirates in the past few years, Pirates ownership continuing to cry poor, what Andrew McCutchen meant to Pittsburgh, and more.
Audio intro: TUNS, "Look Who’s Back in Town Again"
Audio interstitial: The Cranberries, "Copycat"
Audio outro: The Tragically Hip, "Let’s Stay Engaged"
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| 0:00.0 | Blood pulls back into town again. |
| 0:05.0 | Juggles down to the green moon. |
| 0:16.0 | Can't accept that being a touch. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1163 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:26.0 | a baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Winger. |
| 0:32.0 | I am joined by, and gives me great pleasure to say this for the first time in a while. |
| 0:37.0 | Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass who has returned from his latest world travels. |
| 0:42.0 | And none too soon. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello Jeff, welcome back. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, it was so nice of baseball to do nothing while I was gone for three weeks. |
| 0:50.0 | It was nice for you. |
| 0:52.0 | I remember when you took your vacation last year, |
| 0:57.0 | right after taking over as co-host and then leaving the country immediately. |
| 1:01.0 | We talked about that feeling of disorientation when you get back from a trip |
| 1:06.0 | and you have to catch up on everything, |
| 1:08.0 | and you were probably largely spared that this time. |
| 1:11.0 | You were of the few weeks that you were away. |
| 1:14.0 | What was the biggest baseball thing that happened? |
| 1:17.0 | Oh, Scott Alexander Trade, I gotta tell you. |
| 1:20.0 | It was going to be Garrett Cole, but then last week it didn't happen until right about when I landed. |
| 1:26.0 | So it was really great timing, I think, for me personally. |
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