Effectively Wild Episode 1291: Power Ball to the People
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Jeff Sullivan, and ESPN’s Sam Miller recap the results of their 2018 minor league free agent draft and the surprising season of Wade LeBlanc, banter about Willians Astudillo and Delmon Young, discuss the defining memory of the 2018 season (and other seasons), and react to Clayton Kershaw’s contract extension. Then (28:54) they bring on Rob Neyer, author of the new book Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game, to discuss how he picked a game and topics to write about, whether baseball is changing in worrisome ways, knowing when and how to cite stats and talk to players, an unintended consequence of a powerful MLB Players Association, the pace of baseball’s evolution, Rob Manfred’s performance so far, and much more.
Audio intro: The Whigs, "Say Hello"
Audio interstitial: Rockpile, "When I Write the Book"
Audio outro: Joanna Newsom, "The Book of Right-On"
Link to minor league FA draft episode
Link to EW competitions/draft spreadsheet
Link to Sam’s article on each season’s defining memory
Link to Sam’s article on 2017’s defining memory
Link to Sam’s Delmon transaction tree article
Link to Jeff’s Kershaw contract post
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Say hello, say hello my darling |
| 0:10.0 | Don't bite your nails, don't bite your nails, keep talking |
| 0:18.0 | The words in your heart belong on each tongue |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah they got to be someone else |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah they got to |
| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1291 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:38.0 | The baseball podcast from Vangraths presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:42.0 | and a member of the Fringer joined by Jeff Sullivan |
| 0:45.0 | with Vangraths Hello Jeff |
| 0:47.0 | Hello |
| 0:48.0 | And we are all joined by Sam Miller of ESPN Hello Sam |
| 0:51.0 | Hey Ben |
| 0:52.0 | Later in this episode |
| 0:53.0 | I'm not too much later |
| 0:55.0 | Oh yeah you didn't say hey Jeff |
| 0:57.0 | You didn't say hey to me |
| 0:58.0 | Oh that's true |
| 0:59.0 | I just said hey |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah he didn't say you weren't part of it yet |
| 1:02.0 | Wow co-host drama |
| 1:04.0 | Okay it's really flaring up |
| 1:06.0 | Alright so later we are going to talk to Rob Nyer about his book Powerball |
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