Effectively Wild Episode 1350: Season Preview Series: Astros and Tigers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter at length about Mike Trout’s extension, why he may have wanted to stay with the Angels, what makes him different from other players, and why he’s underpaid despite his record contract, then preview the 2019 Houston Astros (44:38) with The Athletic’s Astros beat writer Jake Kaplan, and the 2019 Detroit Tigers (1:15:05) with Detroit Free Press Tigers beat writer Anthony Fenech.
Audio intro: Heatmiser, "Why Did I Decide to Stay?"
Audio interstitial 1: Neil Finn, "Astro"
Audio interstitial 2: John Doe and The Sadies, "Country Club"
Audio outro: Flamin’ Groovies, "The First One’s Free"
Link to Ben’s Trout extension article
Link to Sam’s Trout extension article
Link to Sam’s article about Trout on every team
Link to story about MLB considering raising minor-league salaries
Link to Banished To The Pen’s team preview posts
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe you'll remember, next to me, does all recorded history |
| 0:08.6 | Start tomorrow morning, did you forget, or will your kiss is mine? |
| 0:14.0 | Final warning, popping off, your smile is in |
| 0:20.8 | What was I supposed to say? |
| 0:24.3 | It's the ground and it dies easy |
| 0:29.0 | What did I decide to say? |
| 0:32.6 | Low and welcome to episode 1350 of The Fact of the Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:38.4 | Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lemberg of the |
| 0:42.5 | Ringer joined by Say Miller of ESPN Fosan. |
| 0:45.8 | Hey Ben! |
| 0:49.0 | Thanks for coming on, I got mail! |
| 0:50.7 | I got mail, hang on! |
| 0:51.7 | That was mail? |
| 0:52.4 | Oh, I see. |
| 0:54.3 | I got a baseball book in the mail. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh nice, which one? |
| 1:07.3 | Unwritten, bat flips, the fun police, and baseball's new future. |
| 1:11.8 | Hmm, alright. |
| 1:13.1 | So, we can proceed with the episode now. |
| 1:16.2 | We are doing a preview podcast, so we'll be speaking to Jake Kaplan of the |
| 1:21.6 | Athletic about the Astros and Anthony Fennec about the Tigers, he's with the |
| 1:26.4 | Detroit Free Press. But we've got news and we had some plans to banter |
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