Effectively Wild Episode 1333: Season Preview Series: Rockies and Pirates
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a bunch of proposed rules changes, FanGraphs readers’ responses to them, and the general desirability of change of some sort, then preview the 2019 Colorado Rockies (19:57) with former Rockies outfielder and current AT&T SportsNet Rockies analyst Cory Sullivan, and the 2019 Pittsburgh Pirates (46:20) with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s Stephen J. Nesbitt, plus a closing note on J.T. Realmuto.
Audio intro: The Bevis Frond, "Time to Change"
Audio interstitial 1: Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby, "Rocky Mountain Moon"
Audio interstitial 2: Oasis, "The Importance of Being Idle"
Audio outro: Guster, "Two at a Time"
Link to rules change survey responses
Link to Sam on Marlins trades
Link to SABR Award voting
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| 0:00.0 | The second thing that will lead to further time |
| 0:08.0 | Into the ocean of ocean |
| 0:12.0 | The different times that never stop |
| 0:15.0 | It's time to change right now |
| 0:22.0 | We've gotta try to change the mind |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1333 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:33.0 | A baseball podcast from Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:37.0 | I am Ben the Bird of the Ring or Join by Jeff Foggan of Fangrafts |
| 0:40.0 | So, hello, we are back to the team preview podcasters today |
| 0:44.0 | We will be talking about the Colorado Rockies with Cory Sullivan |
| 0:48.0 | Who is a former Colorado Rockie himself and is now a Rockies analyst for Rootsports |
| 0:53.0 | And we will also be talking about the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 0:56.0 | With Steven Nesbitt of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette |
| 0:59.0 | But before we get to them, we just wanted to bent her a bit about some of the news, some of the proposals that have been floated this week |
| 1:06.0 | Can you concisely explain whether and when any of this is gonna happen? |
| 1:12.0 | Because I know there's been a lot of confusion |
| 1:14.0 | We've seen some proposals that have been leaked that the players association has suggested |
| 1:19.0 | It's in response to measures that the league has suggested |
| 1:23.0 | So it's kind of a collaborative process, kind of a negotiation where MLB can implement some things unilaterally that were proposed last year |
| 1:32.0 | But it's an ongoing discussion about changes to the game |
| 1:36.0 | And most of the ideas that have been floated will not be enacted this season and may never be enacted |
| 1:42.0 | But there is a chance at least that we will see some of this stuff happen soon |
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