Effectively Wild Episode 1297: Cistulli and Desist
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a big day for Willians Astudillo, the still-overlooked greatness of Anthony Rendon, the mystery of Jeff Mathis, John Middleton’s comments about the Phillies’ impending spending spree, and the Orioles hiring the Astros’ Mike Elias as their new GM. Then (26:50) they bring on outgoing FanGraphs managing editor Carson Cistulli to talk about how he got a job with the Blue Jays and what it will entail, his initial suspicion that the offer was a prank, his (low) level of confidence in his own abilities, how he’s managed to identify overlooked players, why teams are hiring a new type of writer, his feelings about leaving FanGraphs, why he gradually grew on the readers, and how his life will change.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm moving on to my dreams, up to my own |
| 0:08.3 | Feel to be wherever my soul may be by |
| 0:16.6 | Who can I'm gonna tell with the journey made me live |
| 0:23.2 | Who can I'm gonna say with the rainbow may be found |
| 0:33.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1297 of Effectively Wild in a baseball podcast |
| 0:38.7 | from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:41.7 | I am Ben Lidberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan from fan graphs hello |
| 0:45.9 | I'd like to stop beginning these podcasts in the same way as always |
| 0:48.5 | but I would just point out when we podcasted on Thursday what I had said was that |
| 0:51.9 | Williams Estadio hit his first home run of Winter Ball on November 15th which was Thursday |
| 0:57.5 | and now when I go to his page it shows two games for November 15th |
| 1:02.8 | I don't know if they played a double header I don't know if there are double headers in the |
| 1:06.0 | Venezuelan Winter League it does look like he played twice on November 11th so take these |
| 1:09.8 | numbers baby with a great assault but I will point out that two games against my eyes on November 15th |
| 1:15.2 | in one game S2D I went two for four with zero straightouts into one home run and in the other |
| 1:19.5 | game he went two for two with zero straightouts and two home runs looks like maybe one |
| 1:23.9 | is a deal with three home runs on Thursday huh I would be surprised and I don't have box |
| 1:28.4 | scores here but would he he wouldn't have caught both games with a double header would he that |
| 1:31.9 | would be well I don't know what they do yeah well I don't know but wow a three home run day |
| 1:37.1 | possibly for Williams Estadio that's worth starting a podcast with Williams Estadio I think |
| 1:43.5 | so most of this podcast is going to be a conversation with Carson Sastouly |
| 1:49.2 | outgoing managing editor of fan graphs and host of fan graphs audio he has been hired by the |
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