Effectively Wild Episode 1318: The Keeper of the Game
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about New York Met Rymer Liriano and the minor league free agent draft, David Robertson signing with the Phillies, Robertson’s underrated record, and a Sabermetrics Mount Rushmore, then (14:43) talk to Retrosheet founder and president Dave Smith about how he started Retrosheet, the organization’s mission to collect a record of every major-league game ever played, its most valuable and most unlikely play-by-play sources, how games get entered into the database, the unreliability of players’ recollections, Dave’s Vin Scully/Sandy Koufax story, how Retrosheet is continuing to unearth missing games, how it deduces games when complete records aren’t available, whether it will ever complete its task, why baseball stats and history are so fascinating, and more.
Audio intro: Whitney, "Dave’s Song"
Audio interstitial: Gillian Welch, "Everything is Free"
Audio outro: The Who, "Daily Records"
Link to EW minor league draft results
Link to Jeff’s Robertson post
Link to Ben’s Sherri Nichols story
Link to David Neft interview
Link to Retrosheet’s most wanted games
Link to Tewksbury interview
Link to Secret Santa montage
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| 0:00.0 | I know it's hard to give up when I don't want to be saved |
| 0:07.0 | Take me in your heart again |
| 0:12.0 | And I know how to keep your heart up |
| 0:17.0 | But I won't do it again |
| 0:20.0 | Don't you go and leave me in my friend |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1318 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:30.0 | with baseball podcasts from FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Dan Lingerig of the Ringer, Jennifer Sullivan of FanGrafts |
| 0:38.0 | Hello! |
| 0:39.0 | I have good news for you, potentially good news |
| 0:42.0 | Your eighth round draft pick in the Myod League frame draft, Rhymer Leriano, is a great |
| 0:46.8 | term, this is a minor league contract, but he has at least signed somewhere and he has |
| 0:50.0 | signed with the Mets, who's current centerfielder is Juan Lagarras, they have Roger Davis around his back up |
| 0:57.0 | I don't know if Rhymer Leriano is a real centerfielder at this point, he's played a lot of all outfield positions down in the |
| 1:05.0 | minus, but he is still 27 years old and he hit fairly well last year in AAA, so you might have a |
| 1:11.0 | some sort of opportunity there, if say Juan Lagarras gets injured and the Mets decide they don't want to pay for someone better |
| 1:18.0 | and Rhymer Leriano, he's their man |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, that would not shock me, yeah that's one of the nice after effects of the minor league |
| 1:25.0 | creation draft, it's fun when we do it, but then it's fun throughout the year because you see these names |
| 1:30.0 | that normally would mean almost nothing to you right now on MLB trade rumors, there's the minor MLB transactions post |
| 1:37.0 | and you just scan past these names, haven't seen this guy in a while, don't know this guy, don't know where this guy will be |
| 1:43.0 | but because we have this connection, we have this stake now in Rhymer Leriano and Hyrodias and all of these guys |
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