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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1466: Slapdick Podcast

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about covering transactions past and present, the latest eye-catching comments by Scott Boras, the Tommy Pham trade and Blake Snell’s candid real-time reaction to it, and what the busy signing season so far augurs for the future of free agency and labor relations, then answer listener emails about players with more times caught stealing than strikeouts and team TV networks airing classic losses, with additional discussion of the weird and wonderful Nick Madrigal, the forecast for a fun White Sox team in 2020, an increasingly intriguing crop of two-way players, and the evolving look of baseball broadcasts.

Audio intro: The Move, "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited"
Audio outro: XTC, "Harvest Festival"

Link to Boras story
Link to Boras Corporation website
Link to Snell story
Link to Ben Clemens on the Pham trade
Link to Ben on free agency
Link to Jen Ramos fundraiser
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

And some horses be paid, turning into lemonade.

0:04.0

Follow me, feel better when I'm dead.

0:09.1

Jelly Blossom, living.

0:13.7

Is the way truth and what they say.

0:18.3

Jelly Blossom, living.

0:23.0

Not me and I'm throwing a kill away.

0:27.7

Hello and welcome to episode 1466 of Effectively Wild, a fan graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:35.3

I'm Negraali of Fan Graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?

0:41.0

Doing alright, how are you?

0:42.8

I'm good. I'm a little bit tired. I enjoyed a friend's wedding yesterday as the rays and

0:51.0

Padres were doing trades. Yeah. And I am exhausted by both things candidly just worn out.

0:58.3

Spent so much activity. Yeah, it's been a busy week. It's been a busy six weeks or so.

1:04.7

Which same and I talked about a bit last time and I have since written about and maybe we can discuss

1:09.8

again, but I'm sure that Dylan Higgins has also been busy directing traffic in your absence because

1:16.9

you really stick to the commitment to cover almost every move. Is there any transaction that

1:24.1

Fan Graphs will not dain't to cover or is it pretty much move gets made? Let's get someone on this.

1:29.5

Well, I'll tell you what. But before I tell you what, I will say that I must

1:35.9

in addition to our usual thanks, say thanks to Dylan for his editing assistance while I've been

1:41.9

on vacation for a couple of days, which I've mostly I have mostly not worked, but for editing

1:47.0

a Red Sox list. So a but for, you know, a list of prospect guys. I did a good job, but we didn't

1:54.4

cover the most recent Rocky Gale transaction. So he only gets one one a year at Fan Graphs. That's it.

2:01.7

And then the rest of the time, Rocky's on his own. Yeah, I guess there probably wasn't that much new

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