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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1465: Free Agency’s Second Wind

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss a crowdsourced effort to help baseball writer Jen Ramos, then banter about hot stove terminology and why free-agent activity seems to be picking up, analyzing the implications of a busy non-tender deadline day and the expectations-exceeding signings of Drew Pomeranz, Mike Moustakas, Cole Hamels, Zack Wheeler, José Abreu, and others, as well as changes in how teams evaluate players and the benefits of playing possum. Then they answer listener emails about an ownership spending conspiracy and how good Mike Trout would be if baseball were the world’s only sport, plus a Stat Blast about the Mets’ extreme 9th-inning woes and an observation about Dylan Bundy and Jurickson Profar.

Audio intro: The Hold Steady, "The Stove & the Toaster"
Audio outro: The Mountain Goats, "Whole Wide World"

Link to Jen Ramos fundraiser
Link to Ben Clemens on Wheeler
Link to Dan Szymborski on the Wheeler signing
Link to Craig Edwards on the Moustakas signing
Link to Ginny Searle on the Moustakas signing and the free-agent market
Link to Edwards on non-tender takeaways
Link to Edwards on the state of team payrolls
Link to Tyler Kepner on free agency
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

We got some new information from the chef and the sugar

0:06.6

And they put the stash in the stove, they came to catch the mature

0:14.1

The tower's creases and it's all pretty ridiculous

0:20.7

I hope I still know you and this is all over

0:24.8

Good morning and welcome to episode 1465

0:29.1

Effectively wild thanks ball podcast on vangraths.com

0:32.4

Bye to you by our patreon supporters. I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh. Hello Ben

0:38.2

Hi, we're gonna be doing an email episode before that though

0:41.9

There was a terrible and tragic event involving a baseball writer many of you know named Jen Ramos this month

0:49.3

Jen is alive, but in very serious condition

0:52.0

I'm gonna read from a gofundme page that has been set up by Jen's family

0:56.6

On the morning of December 1st 2019 Josh and Jennifer husband and wife were driving from Jen's

1:02.4

parents home in San Luis Obispo leaving at around 11 p.m. to get to Merced in time to take care of their four cats

1:09.1

Unfortunately, they never made it at around 1.30 a.m. December 1st a drunk driver hit them on highway 99

1:15.3

In Fresno, California

1:17.2

Joshua Eisen 28 years old married on January 2nd 2019 was not to see his first year anniversary as he was killed on the spot by the drunk driver

1:26.2

His wife Jennifer was severely and critically injured

1:29.6

Jennifer sustained fractures on both lower limbs and pelvis and aortic tear had hemothorax and other injuries

1:37.2

That afternoon they were wheeled to the operating room to repair the aorta insert a chest tube for the hemothorax and

1:43.6

Debridement of the fractures on December 2nd Jen was wheeled back to the OR for the reduction of the left and right limb fractures

1:51.3

The left limb was not reduced due to some pulmonary oxygen saturation problem and another surgery was scheduled for Wednesday

1:58.1

Which is when we are recording this right now

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