Effectively Wild Episode 1335: Horsed Retirement
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo’s visa problem, Doug Fister’s retirement and CC Sabathia’s retirement tour, Johnny Cueto’s late horses, the current size of Yoenis Cespedes, players’ newly coordinated messaging about baseball economics, and Aaron Nola’s extension, then answer listener emails about when baseball will cease to exist, small-market teams’ spending, Shohei Ohtani as twins, projecting power vs. contact, saving money for Mike Trout, seven-inning games, and using total bases to end extra-inning games, plus Stat Blasts about Max Muncy vs. Robbie Grossman and major award winners with no award votes in previous or subsequent seasons.
Audio intro: Guns N’ Roses, "Dead Horse"
Audio outro: The Yardbirds, "Over Under Sideways Down"
Link to Ben’s old story about retirement-tour gifts
Link to Cueto’s first dead horse
Link to Cueto’s latest dead horse
Link to Cespedes video
Link to article about players’ social-media messaging
Link to Sam on small-market teams
Link to Sam on ending extra-inning games
Link to Baseball Mogul offer
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what's wrong with me? You're like I'm feeding the devil. |
| 0:04.3 | I don't know why you keep bringing me down. |
| 0:07.7 | It's like the city's better. |
| 0:09.6 | I know what you're saying. |
| 0:10.9 | Oh, that's all I'm sorry for. |
| 0:13.0 | You guess I'm not allowed to be smiling. |
| 0:19.2 | Rocking so many, never change. |
| 0:24.5 | Never change. |
| 0:27.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 1335 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast |
| 0:34.9 | from Ben Grass presented by our Patreon supporters from Lemberg at the ringer |
| 0:39.5 | joined by Jeff Sullivan of Ben Grass. |
| 0:41.5 | Though, Rangers pitcher Sean Kelly on where Bright's Harper will end up, |
| 0:45.3 | via TR Sullivan's Twitter feed, Sullivan numbers for a ranger quote. |
| 0:48.8 | No idea. Talk to him the other day and he said it's actually slower than you |
| 0:52.3 | guys think it is. How in what world is slower? |
| 0:55.9 | Happy slower than we think it is. Nothing is happening. |
| 1:00.1 | Slower than motionless, I guess if he's actually going backward, |
| 1:03.8 | he's somehow further away from signing than he was before. |
| 1:08.8 | Oh man, one of these days, one of these years, they'll sign somewhere. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm sure it's been a while since our last Williams Estadio update. |
| 1:16.4 | And I have an update for you, which is that Williams Estadio has not yet arrived in |
| 1:21.6 | twins camp because he is having visa issues. |
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