Effectively Wild Episode 1327: Marginal Wince
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about good and bad news for much-traveled pitcher Oliver Drake, the Dodgers’ signing of A.J. Pollock and the team’s perplexing offseason plan and lack of NL West competition, the Cubs’ signing of Brad Brach, and a report about the 10-day DL and the rules about optioning players to the minors, then (21:35) talk to Field of Schemes author Neil deMause about the financial calculus behind why teams aren’t spending more on player payroll, how the game got here and what the union can do, the rationale for rooting for a team despite subpar ownership, whether any progress has been made in educating the public about funding stadiums for sports teams, and more.
Audio intro: The Decemberists, "January Hymn"
Audio interstitial: Supergrass, "In it for the Money"
Audio outro: Old Sea Brigade, "Western Eyes"
Link to Jeff’s Pollock post
Link to Ringer article about the Dodgers’ offseason
Link to AP article about DL and option time
Link to Neil’s article
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | What were the words I meant to say before she left |
| 0:07.0 | When I could see her breath lead where she was going to? |
| 0:17.0 | Maybe I should just let it be |
| 0:23.0 | And maybe it will all come back to me |
| 0:27.0 | Sing old Janu |
| 0:31.0 | Old Janu |
| 0:35.0 | Very long |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1327 of The Fenty Food Wiley |
| 0:41.0 | Anger F. Spaceball Podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:45.0 | I am Diff Sullivan of Fanger F. Join us always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer |
| 0:49.0 | I feel like I actually messed it up, I don't know what's in my head now |
| 0:51.0 | I think it was fine, it's probably fine, you get the point effectively wild here you are |
| 0:55.0 | Hi Ben, how are you? |
| 0:57.0 | Let's do it okay, hi |
| 0:59.0 | So we're going to be joined later in this episode |
| 1:01.0 | I think all of our episodes are for the most part our guest episodes now |
| 1:03.0 | Except for when we say we're going to do emails and sometimes we actually do new emails |
| 1:07.0 | But today we will be joined by Neil Demasey, a long time right now for the business of baseball |
| 1:12.0 | You might be familiar with the book Field of Schemes which has now been out for |
| 1:15.0 | This is going on, it's 21st year of publication so that is ridiculous |
| 1:19.0 | But we're going to be talking to him about, you know, owner's baseball finance |
| 1:23.0 | All the things that everybody is talking about right now in the absence of Bryce Harper and Manning Machado |
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