Effectively Wild Episode 1290: Circling the Wagenen
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Boston’s outfield rotation during the World Series, the significance of declining World Series ratings, the Orioles and the difficulty of classifying “tanking” teams, Manny Machado’s public persona and whether his reputation will hurt his free-agent appeal, and the Mets’ hiring of agent Brodie Van Wagenen as their new GM. They also answer two listener emails about the Astros and do a Stat Blast about the differences between postseason and regular-season baseball.
Audio intro: Dinosaur Jr., "The Wagon"
Audio outro: Lou Reed, "Wagon Wheel"
Link to Craig Edwards on World Series TV ratings
Link to Jeff’s post on the Orioles
Link to Ben on quantifying hustle
Link to Sheryl Ring on hiring agents as GMs
Link to Jeff on postseason stats
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| 0:00.0 | There is a place I've got to go when we get there, but I know |
| 0:12.0 | There is a place I know you've been, there's no wagon going on in |
| 0:19.0 | There is a place I've been, there's no one going on in the world |
| 0:25.0 | There is a place I've been, there's no one going on in the world |
| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1290 of Effective Will Wild |
| 0:38.0 | a baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Bringer joined by Chapshullivan of Fangrass |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, so we're going to do some emails today I think I'm going to kind of get into offseason mode |
| 0:53.0 | maybe next time and next week and there's some drafts we have to do and some sort of themed episodes and guests |
| 1:00.0 | but today I think just some banter and some emails |
| 1:04.0 | I meant to mention one thing that we didn't talk about during the World Series |
| 1:08.0 | which was Alex Coras willingness to move outfielders around |
| 1:13.0 | rotate outfielders in corners |
| 1:16.0 | We didn't talk about that but he did that in game three I guess it was |
| 1:22.0 | which was the first game in LA and the game where JD Martinez maybe was hampered by his ankle injury |
| 1:30.0 | and in that game, Mookie Betts went from right field to center field to right field to center field to center field to center field to right field |
| 1:38.0 | and Jackie Bradley Jr obviously was rotating with him and also with JD Martinez who was going from left to right |
| 1:47.0 | and Bradley was going from center to left back to center to left |
| 1:52.0 | I guess it's not quite what we had talked about in the spring when the Phillies were thinking about doing something similar |
| 1:59.0 | just on a regular basis because they had some bad outfielders and it seemed like maybe they would just want to do that based on who the hitter was |
| 2:07.0 | In this game I guess it happened just because Martinez was a Martinez and be not a hundred percent of Martinez |
| 2:16.0 | because it didn't really happen in the other games |
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