Effectively Wild Episode 1293: Offseason Draft Day
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the possibility of the Mariners selling and what a Jerry Dipoto-led rebuild would look like, the Yankees’ CC Sabathia signing and GM Brian Cashman’s comments about the luxury tax, scenes from the GM meetings, the Giants hiring Farhan Zaidi from the Dodgers, and Lance McCullers presumably pitching hurt and having Tommy John surgery, then conduct their annual free agent contracts over/under draft and World Series odds movers draft.
Audio intro: Blondie, "Will Anything Happen"
Audio outro: Big Thief, "Vegas"
Link to EW competitions and drafts sheet
Link to MLBTR’s FA contract predictions
Link to October Bovada World Series odds
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| 0:00.0 | And if you do, will anything happen? |
| 0:05.0 | Will it come true? |
| 0:08.0 | Will anything happen? |
| 0:11.0 | But I see again. |
| 0:16.0 | But I see again. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1293 of Effectively Wild, a baseball |
| 0:25.2 | podcast from Ben Drafts presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Ben Drafts, a member of the Ringer Joint by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Drafts. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, Ben. |
| 0:35.0 | It is Draft Day. |
| 0:36.0 | We've got two drafts on the docket. |
| 0:37.0 | Our old favorites, usual winter standbyes, we're going to do our free agent contracts draft |
| 0:43.0 | and our World Series odds movers draft. |
| 0:47.0 | But what a bit of baseball news before we get to that? |
| 0:50.0 | Anything you want to start with? |
| 0:52.0 | Well, let's see. |
| 0:54.0 | There were understandably other things that people were focusing on. |
| 0:57.0 | But what do we have? |
| 0:58.0 | We have some apiocetial content. |
| 0:59.0 | We have some other news. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, but the giants hiring far anxiety. |
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