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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 141: 2013 Season Preview Series: Houston Astros

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam preview the Astros’ season with Jason Collette, and Pete talks to MLB.com correspondent Richard Justice (at 16:54).

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0:00.0

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.

0:04.8

Good morning and welcome to episode 141 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

0:10.1

prospectus daily podcast. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh and today we are

0:14.8

joined by Jason Collette. Jason, how are you? You're well guys, how you doing? Good.

0:20.6

So Jason is the author of the Astros chapter of the baseball

0:25.4

prospectus annual. We're gonna talk to him about the Astros after that. Pete

0:29.0

Barrett will talk to Richard Justice with MLB.com also about the Astros. So

0:34.4

Jason, you recently, about probably two months ago, three months ago, two

0:38.6

months ago, wrote comments about 70 different Astros baseball players. Just

0:43.8

out of curiosity, how many do you think you could name from scratch right now if

0:48.6

you didn't have a computer in front of you? 10. I think they haven't

0:52.9

they've traded about 60 since then. They've traded a lot of them. How many

0:56.5

could you name before you did the research for that chapter? And here's the

1:00.8

thing. I grew up as an Astros fan. That's the scary thing. I could

1:04.4

probably name more Astros fan. Astros players from the 80s that I can the

1:08.1

current roster right now. Uh-huh. Do it. Let's hear. Our Hal Terry

1:13.9

pool. Joe Sanbedo. I can keep going for a while. The current roster, I'm like

1:19.0

Chris Carter and Tyler Green only because I heard the other day that they

1:23.6

want him to lead off he of his career to 80 on base percentage. So that's

1:27.6

an interesting choice. Um, so the Astros are kind of an interesting team

1:33.2

because I I think that there's been an idea among fans over the last decade or

1:41.5

so that if you're as bad as the Astros, you shouldn't really bother too much

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