Effectively Wild Episode 1253: Executive-Producing Players
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Ben’s excursion to a Helena Brewers game, Matt Davidson‘s relief excellence, Juan Soto‘s historic performance, Kole Calhoun‘s resurgence, the A’s acquiring Mike Fiers, Mike Trout’s 27th birthday, and more, then (25:14) talk to former big leaguer (and former live guest) Fernando Perez about the 10th anniversary of the 2008 Rays, how coaches can hurt or help a player’s professional experience, and what’s right and wrong with baseball broadcasting, marketing, and analysis.
Audio intro: Jason Isbell, "Traveling Alone"
Audio interstitial: ABBA, "Fernando"
Audio outro: Hank Williams Jr., "Montana Song"
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| 0:00.0 | usando friday |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome episode number 1,253 |
| 0:35.0 | I get that right I'm effectively well |
| 0:37.0 | Yes, they did. They nailed it. They nailed it. They |
| 0:39.8 | graphed baseball podcast, brought to you by our |
| 0:41.6 | patrons, Fortesheim, Jeff Sullivan, and |
| 0:43.3 | fansriffs joint. As always, by Ben Lindbergh of |
| 0:46.0 | currently Montana. I've been, how are you? Has Montana? |
| 0:48.6 | I'm doing very well. It's a big sky country and as |
| 0:52.0 | advertised, pretty big sky. Not really a bigger sky, but |
| 0:55.4 | it's a more visible sky because there's not much in the way, but |
| 0:58.0 | I've had a good time out here. I came to see a bunch of |
| 1:01.6 | musical acts over the weekend and now I'm just hanging |
| 1:04.0 | around here for a few days and enjoying the scenery. |
| 1:06.4 | Sky's the same. You can just see more of it. |
| 1:08.4 | Congratulations on that discovery. So are you |
| 1:11.6 | in? Where's it? Missoula, Missoula Montana? |
| 1:13.8 | I was in Missoula. I'm currently in Helena. |
| 1:16.1 | And I have no follow-up question. So today, for |
| 1:19.9 | his one case, I went to a Helena Brewers game. |
| 1:22.6 | Nothing really all that exciting about that, but I did do it. |
| 1:26.4 | It was maybe my first rookie level baseball game. I'm not sure |
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