Effectively Wild Episode 1473: The Stories We Missed in 2019 (Part 3)
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about whether this year’s good free agents have actually gone to an unusual selection of teams and whether they believe in Wade Miley’s supposed pitch-tipping, and then, in the third and final installment of a three-part series, discuss stories that they overlooked about 10 more teams in 2019, touching on the Mariners’ many players (especially Kyle Lewis), the .300-hitting Hanser Alberto, Danny Santana’s resurgence, the joy of Ji-Man Choi, career years for Eduardo Rodriguez and Christian Vázquez, Ian Kennedy as a relief ace and Danny Duffy’s experience with anxiety and depression, Spencer Turnbull’s record and the conversion of Nick Ramirez, Mitch Garver and Luis Arraez, Eloy Jiménez’s vengeance, the Yankees’ home series and CC Sabathia as Yoda, and other players, fun facts, and statistical oddities that deserve longer looks.
Audio intro: Earlimart, "Nothing is True"
Audio outro: The Smiths, "Hand in Glove"
Link to Ben Clemens on free agents
Link to Rosenthal on Miley’s pitch-tipping
Link to Lookout Landing on Lewis
Link to Ben Clemens on the joy of Choi
Link to Duffy story
Link to story on Garver’s makeover
Link to Arraez origin story
Link to story on Arraez plate appearance
Link to story on Sabathi-Yoda
Link to story on Pedro-da
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | So save your money for the rainy day |
| 0:03.6 | And learn the life before they take it away |
| 0:06.8 | That haven't you played enough for your tears |
| 0:13.7 | It's good enough for them |
| 0:20.7 | It's never good for you |
| 0:23.7 | And if it is the end |
| 0:34.7 | Only that we've seen |
| 0:37.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 1473 of Effectively Wild a Baseball Podcast |
| 0:43.7 | with thin graphs presented by our Patrons supporters |
| 0:46.7 | and the member of the ringer |
| 0:48.7 | drunk by Sam Miller of ESPN |
| 0:50.7 | Who Meg is not here today because we are finishing our series |
| 0:55.2 | where we talk about the story that we missed about each team in 2019 |
| 0:59.7 | And so Sam started it we figured same would finish it |
| 1:02.7 | But all three of us will be on the first episode next week |
| 1:06.7 | So Meg will be back soon |
| 1:07.7 | So couple bits of banter before we finish what we're doing |
| 1:11.7 | First wanted to mention an article that Penn Clemens wrote for FanGress on Thursday |
| 1:16.7 | because he sort of debunked something that I had kind of believed to be true of this offseason so far |
| 1:23.2 | Which is that the teams that are signing the free agents or the good free agents |
| 1:27.7 | and driving a lot of this activity are worst teams than usual |
| 1:31.7 | Like more non-playoff teams or bad teams |
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