Effectively Wild Episode 1315: The 2019 Minor League Free Agent Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Jeff Sullivan, and ESPN’s Sam Miller review the top candidates for the most enduring baseball memory of 2018, then conduct the sixth annual Effectively Wild Minor League Free Agent Draft, selecting 11 minor league free agents each and competing to see whose roster will accumulate the most combined MLB playing time in 2019 (followed by a Nelson Cruz signing addendum).
Audio intro: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, "Here We Go Again"
Audio outro: Teal Wicks, "I Know He’s Out There"
Link to Sam’s article about 2018 memories
Link to video of Bregman play
Link to MiLB FA list
Link to Moreland video
Link to EW competitions and drafts sheet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Loyal fans and news and followers! |
| 0:02.3 | What's up, y'all? |
| 0:03.8 | Hello, how are you doing out there? |
| 0:05.6 | You're chilling? I'm with you. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, by the way, the album's out. |
| 0:08.4 | Go get it! |
| 0:09.3 | We went to the studio, and then we made a video. |
| 0:11.6 | We didn't make a movie though. |
| 0:12.8 | Maybe the next year was so y'all. |
| 0:14.2 | I got a message on my dance and friends. |
| 0:16.0 | The last stop was stuff, y'all. |
| 0:17.8 | And here we go again! |
| 0:20.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 1315 of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:24.4 | A baseball podcast from FanGraph presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:28.7 | I am the member of the ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of FanGraph, so the Jeff. |
| 0:33.1 | Hi! |
| 0:34.0 | And also joined as promised by Sandhiller of ESPN, hello Sam. |
| 0:38.0 | Hey, you know, I've told you before that my bike lock, code, my bike lock, whatever password was very fun. |
| 0:44.8 | OPS from 2004. |
| 0:47.2 | But 1315 was actually my wife's bike lock. |
| 0:50.5 | Oh, until we lost it. |
| 0:52.7 | So someone figured it out? |
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