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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1181: Season Preview Series: Red Sox and Reds

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Logan Morrison signing and the Twins’ potent lineup, the Rays’ potentially lucrative new TV deal, and two tidbits from a game played in 1870, then preview the 2018 Red Sox (19:49) with The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier, and the 2018 Reds (55:47) with The Athletic Cincinnati’s C. […]

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0:00.0

I'm gonna head on up to the old Ferguson Road

0:06.0

I'm standing beneath the trees and see how tall I am

0:13.2

Yes, I'm gonna wave in the cold, rocky stream

0:19.5

So I will be sure not to give a damn

0:23.6

Hello and welcome to episode 1181 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast

0:29.3

at Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. My name is Ben Lindbergh

0:33.7

I write for thebringer.com. I am joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs. Hello Jeffrey

0:38.7

Hi, wait no, no, just Jeff. No Jeffrey Benjamin

0:44.0

Well technically accurate, but yeah, okay, just try and set the new after 1181 episodes

0:50.5

It'll be a one-time experiment. So we are doing a team preview podcast today

0:56.0

It is gonna be the Red Sox with Alex Spear of the Boston Globe and the Reds

1:01.2

with Sea Trent Rose Grant of the Athletic Cincinnati

1:04.7

Couple quick things to get to before then

1:07.6

First I am back in the offseason for agent contract prediction game

1:12.9

courtesy of Logan Morrison and the lack of a market for Logan Morrison

1:17.5

Because I was trailing by quite a bit

1:20.7

So for those of you who were not with us when we drafted

1:24.4

We drafted overunders essentially on free agent contracts and if someone is over by a certain amount

1:31.1

And we picked over then we get the amount of money that he is over his estimate at MLB trade rumors

1:36.8

To start the offseason and same for under

1:40.0

And so you were winning by more than 30 million dollars

1:44.4

Cumulatively, but Logan Morrison just about wiped that out entirely by himself

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