Effectively Wild Episode 1166: The 2018 Minor League Free Agent Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Jeff Sullivan, and ESPN’s Sam Miller conduct the fifth annual Effectively Wild Minor League Free Agent Draft, selecting 10 minor league free agents each and competing to see whose roster will accumulate the most combined major league playing time in 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | Counting down from town is time to make sure and your prayer |
| 0:07.0 | Secret center in the sky, when will I get my share? |
| 0:15.0 | Can you tell yourself what you want to hear? |
| 0:22.0 | Because you have to believe this will be my year |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1166 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:33.0 | the baseball podcast from Ben Graffs, |
| 0:35.0 | who's hosted by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello Jeff. |
| 0:43.0 | Hi. |
| 0:44.0 | Also joined by Sam Miller of ESPN, |
| 0:47.0 | all past and or present cohosts convened today |
| 0:51.0 | because it is the biggest day on the Effectively Wild calendar. |
| 0:55.0 | It is the minor league free agent draft, |
| 0:58.0 | the fifth annual minor league free agent draft, |
| 1:01.0 | Jeff's first annual minor league free agent draft. |
| 1:04.0 | But our fifth, Sam, welcome back. |
| 1:06.0 | Are you excited? |
| 1:07.0 | I know you're excited. |
| 1:08.0 | This is your favorite episode, right? |
| 1:10.0 | This is like when you were a year and a half ago |
| 1:13.0 | or whenever it was when you were making a pros and cons list |
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