Effectively Wild Episode 1298: The Paxton Pact
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Tommy Milone and Willians Astudillo, Bryce Harper‘s awful fielding in 2018, two more examples of percentages greater than 100, and Adrian Beltre’s retirement and atypical, incredible career, then (23:34) bring on new FanGraphs managing editor Meg Rowley to talk about both sides of the Yankees-Mariners James Paxton trade, how good Paxton is, the Mariners’ future, the definition of acehood, and a few aspects of her new job, including anxiety about covering breaking news, the difficulty of replacing writers who get hired by teams, the balance between stats stuff and non-stats stuff, common writing pitfalls, representing (and extending opportunities to) women in a male-oriented industry, weekday vs. weekend website traffic, balancing writing and editing, and more.
Audio intro: Franz Ferdinand, "Darts of Pleasure"
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Audio outro: Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, "Walkin’ Boss"
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| 0:00.0 | Skin can feel my lips they tingle, tense, untill circulation |
| 0:06.9 | This one is an easy one, feel the word and melt upon it |
| 0:13.8 | Words of love and words of legend, words of poison, of sequels of pleasure die |
| 0:22.8 | And so you die |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1298 of Effectively Wild A Baseball Podcast from Vemgrass presented |
| 0:32.3 | by our Patreon supporters, I am the member from the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan from Vemgrass |
| 0:37.8 | Hello |
| 0:38.8 | I don't have a will in this video, fun fact nothing has happened but I do have a winter ball |
| 0:42.0 | Fun fact? |
| 0:43.0 | I don't know why you would be able to know this but I'm looking at the vent is wailin winter |
| 0:47.1 | league, the mexican winter league, the Dominican winter league, you know what picture |
| 0:51.0 | at least what qualified picture has the lowest ERA? |
| 0:54.8 | I sure don't |
| 0:55.8 | Tommy Malone has thrown 34.1 innings, he's been playing in the Dominican, 34.1 innings |
| 1:01.5 | for Tommy Malone, 21 hits, 0 earned runs, 2 walks, 32 straightouts, now he's allowed |
| 1:07.7 | 3 runs, unirnt, I don't know what the deal is there, but Tommy Malone, ERA of 0 over |
| 1:14.1 | 6 starts, so that's pretty special, good for Tommy Malone who by the way was in the majors |
| 1:19.5 | this past season |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah, I don't know if I know if you do that |
| 1:23.2 | This was Williams Estadillo who has still not struck out in 109 ed bats, so your daily |
| 1:29.2 | update that nothing has changed |
| 1:31.4 | So later in this episode we will be meeting the new managing editor different from the |
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