Effectively Wild Episode 1352: Season Preview Series: Red Sox and Orioles
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Willians Astudillo making the Twins’ Opening Day roster, whether Astudillo’s uncanny ability to make contact is more mental or physical, and what Oliver Perez and the rest of the remaining LOOGYs can do to preserve their endangered places on major-league rosters when the three-batter minimum goes into effect in 2020, then complete the 30-team preseason series by previewing the 2019 Boston Red Sox (18:40) with Boston Globe reporter Alex Speier, and the 2019 Baltimore Orioles (53:12) with MLB.com Orioles beat writer Joe Trezza.
Audio intro: The Weakerthans, "The Last Last One"
Audio interstitial 1: Guided By Voices, "Alex and the Omegas"
Audio interstitial 2: Chip Taylor, "Nine Soldiers in Baltimore"
Audio outro: Neil Young, "No More"
Link to Rob’s article about endangered LOOGYs
Link to SI article about endangered LOOGYs
Link to Ben on early-season Sale vs. late-season Sale
Link to Ben on champions standing pat and the Boston bullpen
Link to Ben and Baumann on the MLB extension spree
Link to listener’s minor-league free agent tracker
Link to Banished To The Pen’s team preview posts
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | So here's the last one I have left. |
| 0:06.4 | We fell a little deep. |
| 0:09.3 | I watched you fall asleep and nothing happens in the end. |
| 0:18.2 | But I remember when I could remember when. |
| 0:24.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1352 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vangrass |
| 0:30.7 | presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Evan Ferg of the Ringer, joined by a similar |
| 0:36.0 | of ESPN Hello Sam. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello Ben, we have come to the end of the Team Preview podcast series. |
| 0:42.8 | It's been a while, you haven't been here for the whole thing this time, you came out |
| 0:47.2 | of the tail end, it's been a long one, but we have two more previews to go today, it is |
| 0:52.0 | Alex Spear of the Boston Globe, he'll be here talking about the Boston Red Sox and Joe |
| 0:56.4 | Trezza of MLB.com, we'll be talking about the Baltimore Orioles, so you could not find |
| 1:01.9 | two more divergent teams from 2018, at least that's kind of how we drew up the order of |
| 1:08.1 | the series, so we're talking about the best of last year and the worst of last year |
| 1:12.6 | and how they'll be set up for this year. |
| 1:15.1 | And then we can close the book on the whatever millionth annual Team Preview series. |
| 1:19.8 | And I'm not sorry that it's over, but as usual, I think people found the podcast through |
| 1:24.7 | it, it's a good primer for the season, I feel like I now know some Baltimore Orioles and |
| 1:29.7 | other things about the 2019 season, so glad we did it again. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah, I think it was a good organizing structure that you guys had this year. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, the start of the middle and work your way out and you have the divergent teams, |
| 1:42.8 | is this the first year you've done that? |
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