Effectively Wild Episode 1319: Scott, Bore Us
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Oliver Drake‘s new (and also old) team, the Mets, Brodie Van Wagenen, and Keon Broxton, the Yankees signing Zach Britton, how data and technology have helped some free agents and hurt others, the state of free-agent spending and baseball’s economic past, present, and future, Scott Boras’s latest linguistic crime, the White Sox acquiring the friends and family of Manny Machado, Jonny Gomes getting hired as an unlikely coach, and Willians Astudillo’s winter league playoff performance, then answer listener emails about choosing which way to run the bases, televising winter leagues, scoring on defense, and the worst things for players to be the best at, plus a Stat Blast about the least and most consistent team winning percentages.
Audio intro: Nat King Cole, "Thou Swell"
Audio outro: Neil Young, "Sample and Hold"
Link to Drake interview
Link to Jeff’s post on Britton
Link to dolphin story
Link to Sam on Harrison’s pickle powers
Link to Ben’s article on the FA market
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| 0:00.0 | I feel so rich and a hot for two to do the kitchen. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm sure we do give me not a lot of just the planet. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'll swell. |
| 0:16.6 | I'll already be the grand. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1319 of Effectively Wild A. |
| 0:24.6 | baseball podcast from FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:28.6 | I am Ben Linger of the Ringer joined by Justin of FanGrafts. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello Oliver Drake has been traded. |
| 0:35.0 | He is on the move yet again and yet again to a team for whom he's already played. |
| 0:40.2 | Oliver Drake on January 4th. |
| 0:41.9 | So between our last podcast and this one, he went from the blue jace who |
| 0:46.4 | had designated him for assignment to the race for cash. |
| 0:48.8 | He was a trade that's effectively a waiver claim. |
| 0:51.2 | I don't know what the difference is. |
| 0:52.8 | Maybe the trade is a little bit more money than the waiver claim. |
| 0:56.0 | But nevertheless, Oliver Drake, new team, |
| 0:58.3 | same as the old team, same as one of the old teams. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, the blue jays who just cut him loose. |
| 1:03.0 | That was his second stint with them. |
| 1:04.8 | And now he's going back to Tampa Bay. |
| 1:06.4 | So clearly there are teams that like him a fair amount and have acquired him |
| 1:10.6 | multiple times, but then don't like him enough to keep him. |
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