Effectively Wild Episode 1470: Baseball’s Busy Meetings
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about baseball’s busy week and the Giants and Marlins moving in their outfield fences, then discuss the Angels’ signing of Anthony Rendon, touching on Rendon’s greatness and similarity to Mike Trout, what the Angels still need to do to contend and their outlook for 2020, Shohei Ohtani’s probable workload, the Dodgers’ relatively uneventful week, what this week’s activity tells us about baseball’s free-agent market, how to talk about opportunity cost with free agents, and more. Then they answer one listener email about why more players don’t sign with Scott Boras and another that inspired a Stat Blast about baseball’s most similar players, and finish with brief banter about the Rays signing Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and the Yankees bringing back Brett Gardner.
Audio intro: Belle and Sebastian, "Lord Anthony"
Audio outro: David Bowie, "New Angels of Promise"
Link to article on the homogenization of ballparks
Link to Grant on home runs and San Francisco
Link to Grant on the Giants’ quest for a 20-homer hitter
Link to FanGraphs’ home run park factors
Link to Neil Paine on Rendon as Trout’s best teammate
Link to Ben Clemens on the Rendon signing
Link to Tony Wolfe on the Angels’ pitching needs
Link to Phil Birnbaum on not being stupid
Link to info on similarity scores
Link to Thornton/Mayberry comparison
Link to data on most similar players
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | My mind's in the air, coming worse |
| 0:05.0 | My mind's in the air, coming worse |
| 0:10.0 | We call you Lord, out in the air, but hey |
| 0:14.0 | It could be worse, no doubt in the air |
| 0:20.0 | It could be worse, no doubt in the air, but hey |
| 0:26.0 | It could be worse, no doubt in the air, but hey |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1470 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:34.0 | A baseball podcast brought to you by FanGrafts and our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh of FanGrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ring or Ben How are you? |
| 0:44.0 | What a week! What a week! |
| 0:46.0 | It was a winter meetings, baseball mitt and they were busy |
| 0:50.0 | Did you have a nice rest of your meetings in Trip Home? |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, I did. It was busy. I had to abandon very nice dinners back to back nights |
| 1:04.0 | We were just putting in our order the night that Cole signed when the Cole signing broke |
| 1:10.0 | So I put down my drink and I was sitting next to Jay Jaffey who wrote the sort of long analysis piece |
| 1:20.0 | and was on deck to do that and he and I coordinated and Bren Gulaski offered to do our Instagrams |
| 1:26.0 | Couldn't do that all from the dinner table, huh? |
| 1:28.0 | I didn't want to edit on my phone, so I, because that's just a sure way to have bad typos |
| 1:34.0 | So I got a little to go back and then getting up as if I were about to go do something really much more important than edit a story about |
| 1:43.0 | I dramatically got into a lift and headed back to the hotel |
| 1:47.0 | So that was when I was at those Tuesday, those Tuesday night and then on Wednesday |
| 1:55.0 | We thought, oh, we'll go to dinner earlier and surely we won't have another big signing |
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