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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1480: What We’ll Remember About Baseball in 2019

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley banter about Kohl Stewart signing with the Orioles, another convoluted Scott Boras quote, and a few of the things Sam learned in 2019 (including Candlestick Park’s “Cardiac Hill,” the sound of Hideki Matsui’s swing, and the disturbing story of “Toothpick” Sam Jones), then discuss what the most defining/enduring baseball memory of 2019 will be.

Audio intro: The Proper Ornaments, "Memories"
Audio outro: Uncle Tupelo, "That Year"

Link to Sam on what he learned in 2019
Link to Death at the Ballpark book
Link to SABR bio for Sam Jones
Link to Sam on the defining baseball memory of 2019
Link to Sam on the defining baseball memories of previous years
Link to Zach Kram on the baseball as an unreliable narrator
Link to Craig Edwards on MLB’s 2019 competitive balance problem
Link to video of Hal Smith homer
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

🎵Memories may fade, some remain the same. They won't take your place.

0:13.1

🎵Memories can change, the truth will be arranged. Sometimes it's okay.

0:24.3

🎵Memories may fade, some remain the same. Sometimes it's okay. Sometimes it's okay.

0:42.9

🎵Memories may fade, some remain the same. Sometimes it's okay. Sometimes it's okay.

0:50.7

🎵Memories may fade, some remain the same. Sometimes it's okay. Sometimes it's okay.

0:56.8

I'm going to talk to him.

0:58.8

He's going to get a shot to compete for a spot in the rotation.

1:00.8

Dang it!

1:01.8

As you'll discover, Meg, one of the great things about the Mineralee Bridge in Draft is that you suddenly have a stake in transactions and players that you otherwise would not even notice.

1:11.8

My day has been made because the Orioles signed Cold Stewart, which normally I would immediately forget.

1:17.8

I think what I definitely need in my life is to feel more anxiety on behalf of strangers.

1:23.8

That doesn't occupy enough of my emotional bandwidth.

1:26.8

Yeah, so that's pretty exciting.

1:28.8

I was hoping some bad team would give him a shot and that has happened.

1:33.8

I almost didn't take Cold Stewart just because he was so bad with the twins.

1:37.8

And he got shots with them, which is the other thing.

1:40.8

So I figured, well, the team that drafted him, they'll be the ones to give him a shot.

1:45.8

There's anything there, although I guess he was drafted under a different regime.

1:49.8

And you never know, change a scenery or something, but they have had success improving pitchers.

1:54.8

So I don't know what it means that they cut him loose.

1:56.8

Anyway, trying to avoid any coal in my stocking jokes, but going to the Orioles, that is about as promising an assignment as I could have asked for.

2:03.8

I'm looking at their depth chart right now.

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