Effectively Wild Episode 1474: The 2020 Minor League Free Agent Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley discuss the signings of Hyun-Jin Ryu and Dallas Keuchel, the Blue Jays’ historic 2019 rotation, the depleted pitching market, MLB’s rising revenue and the continued strength of spending on free agents, Jake Odorizzi and the qualifying offer, Nick Senzel’s switch to Scott Boras, and Rich Hill’s arrest(!), then conduct the seventh annual Effectively Wild Minor League Free Agent Draft, selecting 10 minor league free agents each and competing to see whose roster will accumulate the most combined MLB playing time in 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | You wanna back, you get a back, you need a back, you get a back, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you need a back. |
| 0:14.5 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1474 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcast on Fangraths.com |
| 0:21.2 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Sam Miller of ESPN, along with Meg Rally of Fangraths |
| 0:27.1 | and Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer. We're all here. Hello folks. |
| 0:30.4 | Hi. |
| 0:31.2 | We're gonna be doing our annual Minor League draft. I'm excited. The Minor League free agent draft. We're doing it. |
| 0:38.6 | Seventh annual. |
| 0:39.8 | Seventh annual. We'll go over last year's results. And while we're doing that, maybe we'll go over this year's |
| 0:46.7 | offseason free agent contracts results too, because I can't go over those enough. |
| 0:50.8 | Ben, you had something you wanted to mention. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah. Well, I think it was related to the offseason contracts for agent draft rate, because I think |
| 1:02.8 | things went even worse for me. I've stopped checking it because it's just too upsetting. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah. So are you talking about the re-usining? |
| 1:12.4 | I think so, right? |
| 1:13.5 | Okay. |
| 1:14.1 | So there were two big signings since we last spoke. The free agent pitching market is basically |
| 1:19.3 | depleted at this point, because the White Sox signed Dallas Kikel for three years and 55 and a half |
| 1:24.5 | million. And Blue Jays signed Hunch and Reu for four years and 80 million, both Scott Boris clients. |
| 1:31.3 | So his offseason total is up over a billion now. That's a pretty good offseason for Scott Boris |
| 1:37.3 | commission wise. And now there's there are no good pitchers left. I guess there's Rich Hill. |
| 1:43.1 | I don't want to disrespect Rich Hill, but just got arrested. Rich Hill? Rich Hill. |
| 1:47.5 | Just got arrested like this. |
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