Effectively Wild Episode 1336: Season Preview Series: Twins and Phillies
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about differently shaped players being in the best shape of their lives, the Luis Severino extension, and three trends: the disappearance of highly ranked pitching prospects, the plateauing of league-wide fastball velocity, and arbitration-eligible players signing team-friendly extensions. Then they preview the 2019 Minnesota Twins (17:54) with Baseball Prospectus editor-in-chief Aaron Gleeman, and the 2019 Philadelphia Phillies (46:23) with The Athletic Philadelphia’s lead Phillies writer, Matt Gelb.
Audio intro: The Microphones, "I Felt Your Shape"
Audio interstitial 1: Jeremy Messersmith, "Fast Times in Minnesota"
Audio interstitial 2: Prince, "Still Waiting"
Audio outro: Leonard Cohen, "The Guests"
Link to Ben’s article about pitching prospects
Link to Jeff’s velocity research
Link to Jeff’s post about the Kepler extension
Link to Jeff’s post about the Severino extension
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| 0:00.0 | I thought I felt your shape but I was wrong. |
| 0:12.0 | Really, all I felt was falsely strong. |
| 0:16.0 | I held on tight and closed my eyes. |
| 0:20.0 | It was done I had no sense of your side. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1336 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:30.0 | Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:33.0 | I am Belenberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs. |
| 0:37.0 | So if you look at the recent Rotor World news, Johnny Quedo is not going to pitch in 2020, |
| 0:42.0 | but Johnny Quedo is down 20 pounds and congratulations to Johnny Quedo. |
| 0:46.0 | It's a lot of week to lose but he's not the winner not even of the day. |
| 0:49.0 | Luis Gajara said Friday he's lost 35 to 40 pounds over the off season. |
| 0:53.0 | And a Brett Cecil said Friday that he lost 42 pounds over the off season. |
| 0:57.0 | That is 100 pounds between three players that's been lost. |
| 1:01.0 | That's a lot of pounds. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah well maybe Quedo is in mourning maybe he's not eating because of his horse Popeye. |
| 1:08.0 | He's another guy who doesn't have to pitch anytime soon so doesn't really have to keep himself in shape. |
| 1:12.0 | By the way there was a follow up on the Popeye story. |
| 1:15.0 | Evidently the horse was killed by poisonous grasshoppers which I didn't realize was the thing. |
| 1:21.0 | I've never eaten grasshoppers not even at Safe Go Field but evidently there are poisonous ones and horses shouldn't eat them. |
| 1:27.0 | I didn't know that horses ate grasshoppers. |
| 1:29.0 | No I learned a lot from that update. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah it is funny when you see guys getting in the so-called best shape of their lives. |
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