Effectively Wild Episode 1322: Read All About It
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Ben and Travis Sawchik finishing their new book, The MVP Machine, Willians Astudillo‘s MVP voting results, the Kyler Murray baseball/football decision and why it’s unusual for players in his situation to have leverage, Manny Machado rumors, and Yasmani Grandal‘s comments about the contract he didn’t sign, then answer listener emails about why baseball players don’t hold out and Rickey Henderson’s base-stealing today, plus Stat Blasts about the biggest gaps between best and second-best years and the giant New York Yankees.
Audio intro: The Decemberists, "Midlist Author"
Audio outro: Cake, "Open Book"
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
Link to Astudillo results
Link to Jeff’s Garcia post
Link to hitter height data
Link to Grant’s Little League WAR article
Link to article about baseball terms in Spanish
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And all my readers saying all made list are fed |
| 0:10.0 | You're never the best that you never knew was |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, I'm in bother |
| 0:19.0 | You're never the last that you never knew before |
| 0:24.0 | Maybe one more glass of wine will make everything see fine |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1322 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | the A baseball podcast from a bandgrass presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Big Grass |
| 0:44.0 | Hello, I understand you are very tired |
| 0:46.0 | Explain to yourself to everybody why you are so tired |
| 0:50.0 | This has been a big week for you |
| 0:51.0 | Oh man, big week, big weekend |
| 0:53.0 | I have barely slept since our last episode and it's been longer since our last episode |
| 0:58.0 | Because of what I was doing which is finishing a book |
| 1:01.0 | Travis Sotchik and I were finishing our book |
| 1:04.0 | Finishing the revisions to be precise but it is basically done |
| 1:08.0 | Aside from some minor adjustments |
| 1:10.0 | And so yeah, now I can tell everyone that it is actually going to be a book |
| 1:14.0 | And it's a real thing and you can go pre-order it now |
| 1:17.0 | Which I haven't really said until I delivered it |
| 1:20.0 | I didn't feel like I could guarantee that it would exist |
| 1:22.0 | But now I can so co-get it it's called the MPP machine and it will be out on June 4th |
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