Effectively Wild Episode 1321: You Are the Boss of Me
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo being plunked in reprisal for his home-run pimp, the surprisingly small contract of Yasmani Grandal and the state of the Brewers and the NL Central, Jed Lowrie and the Mets’ positional logjam, DJ LeMahieu joining the Yankees and the ramifications for Manny Machado, the latest in teams trying to lure Machado by recruiting Machado mentors, the Dodgers signing Russell Martin, the latest on A’s first-rounder Kyler Murray, and a real-life analogue to a listener hypothetical about running the bases clockwise. Then (26:47) they bring on FanGraphs founder and overlord David Appelman to discuss his history at AOL and the site’s origin story, how he could have ended up building a database for a team, his philosophy of acquiring and providing data, gambling and baseball, balancing the site’s stats and writing, the secret to making a stats site work well, losing writers to teams, whether he wants the site to be acquired, the state of public baseball analysis, what’s on the horizon for FanGraphs, the future of sports media, and more.
Audio intro: Bob Dylan, "Lord Protect My Child"
Audio interstitial: Arkells, "Oh! The Boss is Coming"
Audio outro: Paul Simon, "When Numbers Get Serious"
Link to Astudillo buzzing and beaning
Link to weird Willians hit
Link to Jeff’s Grandal post
Link to Jeff’s Nelson post
Link to Murray interview episode
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| 0:00.0 | For his age is wise, his God is mother's eye, his gladness in his heart, his young in his |
| 0:14.0 | heart. |
| 0:15.0 | Not only prayer, is a fact can't be there. |
| 0:26.0 | Love protect my child. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1321 of Effectively Wildly, Fanggrapes' Space Ball podcast brought to you by our |
| 0:40.0 | Patreon Support Design Jeff Sullivan of Fanggrapes, joined us by Ben Lindbergh of The Ring or |
| 0:44.0 | Hill of Ben. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, there is plenty of baseball news to discuss, but first, we as the studio's team, the |
| 0:51.0 | Caribus, the Anzawa-Tagi, have defeated the Navagantes, Del Marguerrames in the first round of the |
| 0:57.0 | playoffs. |
| 0:58.0 | I don't know, best of seven series anyway, the Caribus are going to the semi-final, the |
| 1:02.0 | Caribus came down from an 0-2 deficit in the best of seven series to knock out the Navagante |
| 1:08.0 | And the decisive game 6, that was a game where Luis Jimenez hit a decisive 3 run home run to make up the |
| 1:08.0 | 74 difference, but Williams Estadillo and the game went 2 for 3 and in retaliation for the |
| 1:13.0 | celebratory home run that put a lot of everybody's right out of the other day. |
| 1:19.0 | He was drilled in the hip in the top of the ninth inning. |
| 1:22.0 | So Williams Estadillo got drilled in retaliation no matter what you think of the unwritten rules. |
| 1:26.0 | And maybe I should have expected this in my head. |
| 1:30.0 | I never really thought about whether the unwritten rules had gone international. |
| 1:32.0 | I always think of like the good ol' boy White Pitcher who's like trying to exact his revenge, but clearly that is not the case. |
| 1:35.0 | They'll drill you anywhere where you stare at a home run. |
| 1:42.0 | It's just the way of the world. |
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