Effectively Wild Episode 1337: Season Preview Series: Angels and Brewers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Manny Machado signing with the Padres and what the news means for the free-agent market and the futures of the NL West, the Phillies, and Bryce Harper, then preview the 2019 Los Angeles Angels (31:34) with The Athletic’s Angels beat writer, Fabian Ardaya, and the 2019 Milwaukee Brewers (1:02:42) with The Athletic’s Brewers beat writer, Robert Murray, plus a postscript on Machado and Don Newcombe.
Audio intro: The Frames, "Finally"
Audio interstitial 1: The Minus 5 (Feat. Ben Gibbard), "I See Angels"
Audio interstitial 2: Chip Taylor, "Why Milwaukee"
Audio outro: Led Zeppelin, "Ten Years Gone"
Link to Ben’s Machado piece
Link to Jeff’s Machado piece
Link to Padres celebration thread
Link to Ben’s Calhoun article
Link to Baseball Mogul offer
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Flyers, flyers |
| 0:06.9 | Flyers, flyers |
| 0:16.5 | Flyers, flyers |
| 0:22.6 | Flyers, flyers |
| 0:29.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1337 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from |
| 0:35.3 | Fan Gras presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lingerig of the |
| 0:39.7 | Ringer joint-packed Jeff Sullivan of Fan Gras. Hello. We have a team preview |
| 0:44.0 | podcast for you today so shortly we'll be doing an athletic two-fer hits |
| 0:48.4 | pretty tough to avoid the athletic writers when we're doing the team |
| 0:51.6 | preview series, not that we're trying to. So today we will be talking to Robert |
| 0:55.7 | Murray about Milwaukee Brewers and Fabian Ardaya about the Los Angeles Angels. |
| 1:00.7 | But we have something to banter about first because there has been some |
| 1:05.1 | baseball news. Manny Machado has actually picked the team and signed with that |
| 1:09.4 | team 10 years, $300 million. San Diego Padres, we have both written about it |
| 1:15.3 | and dissected it. So where should we begin? Probably with Manny Machado signing |
| 1:19.5 | with the Padres I think makes the most sense. Yeah. Well, it is surprising, right? |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah. Now last year with the Herakosmer sweep six, that I didn't do any going |
| 1:32.2 | back, digging, but from what I can recall it was always kind of a race between |
| 1:36.3 | the Padres and the Royals and the Herakosmer was sold as a premium |
| 1:39.7 | phrase. It was a pretty good for you. So old as a premium |
| 1:42.0 | phrase, but Herakosmer was nowhere close to the level of Manny Machado. |
| 1:46.3 | Manny Machado was younger and better than Herakosmer, which is two good things to |
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