Effectively Wild Episode 1195: Season Preview Series: Mets and Rays

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In their final team-preview podcast of 2018, Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a new podcast-inspired song, the Scott Kingery, Ketel Marte, and Christian Vazquez extensions, Ben’s partially listener-inspired research about catcher offense, a Devil Rays close call, and whether the ball is juiced in MLB The Show, then preview the 2018 Mets (28:47) […]

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0:00.0	We love to get our bats bombed.
0:05.0	We believe in gunnets, jones, and that there's nothing.
0:10.0	Mike drought cannot do.
0:14.0	We've been listening from the start, and we're listening still.
0:17.0	When we don't know the answers, we say Rich Hill, Ben and Jeff and Sam.
0:23.0	It's all because of you.
0:26.0	Effectively wild, the only podcast that effectively quenches our thirst for stead.
0:38.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1195 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fanggraphs and from our Patreon supporters.
0:46.0	I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fanggraphs.
0:50.0	Hello Jeff.
0:51.0	Hello Ben.
0:52.0	The song that you are hearing right now is obviously inspired by this podcast, not just a coincidence.
0:59.0	This song was provided to us as a surprise gift by a number of members of the Facebook group
1:06.0	led by Mark Arduine, who has been mentioned on this podcast recently.
1:10.0	He's the one who did the calculations for the extra inning runner-on-second rule probabilities.
1:15.0	He came up with this idea to get a song written for us and for the podcast.
1:21.0	35 people in the Facebook group chipped in and sent us the song over the weekend.
1:27.0	It's technically, I guess, by Benny and the Jeffs.
1:30.0	It's called Effectively Wild.
1:32.0	It is actually by Matt Farley, who is the guy behind the San Francisco sports band,
1:39.0	which writes many, many, many songs.
1:41.0	We played a Tim Linsekum song by them on the podcast recently.
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