Effectively Wild Episode 1351: Season Preview Series: Yankees and Marlins
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Mariners-A’s opening series, the emotional last game featuring Ichiro Suzuki, and the uncertain degree to which the recent rash of contract extensions reflects players’ anxiety about free agency, then preview the 2019 New York Yankees (38:17) with The Athletic’s Yankees beat writer, Lindsey Adler, and the 2019 Miami Marlins (1:14:31) with The Athletic’s Marlins beat writer, Andre Fernandez.
Audio intro: Built to Spill, "Some Things Last a Long Time"
Audio interstitial 1: The Black Angels, "Empire"
Audio interstitial 2: Animal Collective, "Derek"
Audio outro: Fairport Convention, "Farewell, Farewell"
Link to video of Ichiro leaving his last game
Link to Jeff’s post about extensions
Link to Craig Edwards on extensions
Link to Sam on Marlins trades
Link to Andre on the Marlins’ young pitching
Link to Ben’s On Baseball Writing appearance
Link to Banished To The Pen’s team preview posts
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Your picture is still on my line |
| 0:16.0 | The colors are bright as ever |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1351 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from |
| 0:43.3 | Bandcrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the |
| 0:47.3 | ringer joined by a mega-blog of bandcrafts Hello Meg. Hello. I haven't read an |
| 0:52.3 | intro yet. Am I am I violating my contract? Am I shrinking my duties? Yeah I know I |
| 0:58.0 | guess I need to see the intro to you two at some point. I've just been doing it |
| 1:03.5 | every time. Jeff was always very hesitant about doing it because I would do it |
| 1:07.5 | most of the time and then he would have to do it and he'd get in his head and |
| 1:10.7 | he'd be forgetting what he had to say even though it's basically just hello. |
| 1:14.3 | This is a podcast but yeah we'll work on that maybe next week. Okay you've had |
| 1:19.0 | quite a week as it is so I'd want to add to your your burden. You're right the |
| 1:24.1 | middle of rolling out positional power rankings which is basically a full-time |
| 1:28.6 | job and you're writing one and also editing a bunch and then fangrass rolled |
| 1:34.1 | out framing this week which was really cool and every single player signed an |
| 1:39.0 | extension at the same time which is extremely inconsiderate and already you're |
| 1:43.5 | up at all hours and all night watching the Mariners play in Japan so this is |
| 1:48.8 | just like everything that possibly could have happened in one week isn't that |
| 1:52.6 | wonderful? I don't really know what day it is. I know that it is probably very |
| 1:57.7 | boring to people who have to like go to their real jobs where they have you |
| 2:02.7 | know accounting responsibilities or like have to plan a city or you know |
| 2:06.9 | whatever people do to play the rent to hear from an editor who gets to |
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