Effectively Wild Episode 1495: Season Preview Series: Reds and Brewers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In the first installment of the eighth annual Effectively Wild season preview series, Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller preview the 2020 Reds with The Athletic’s C. Trent Rosecrans, and the 2020 Brewers (40:26) with The Athletic’s Derek VanRiper.
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| 0:00.0 | Because you can't become again |
| 0:03.7 | On the ago, you can't become again |
| 0:08.0 | You can't become again |
| 0:11.4 | On the past, you can't become again |
| 0:15.7 | You became again |
| 0:17.9 | But again |
| 0:19.2 | You became again |
| 0:23.4 | You became again |
| 0:26.7 | Apply to you |
| 0:28.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 1495 of Effective Wild, a baseball podcast from FAMGRAPHS presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.1 | I am Femme Perk of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN, hello Sam. Hello. |
| 0:43.4 | Today is the first episode of our |
| 0:47.2 | 2020 season preview podcast series. This is, I believe, the eighth year that we have previewed the season and |
| 0:54.5 | Every single time they ended up playing the season. So we've got to keep previewing |
| 0:58.4 | So for those of you who haven't been with us through this Odyssey before |
| 1:02.8 | We get guests on to talk about all 30 teams and we do it two teams per episode and |
| 1:09.4 | Last year and also this year we are doing it in order of |
| 1:13.7 | projections as we start the series based on FAMGRAPHS |
| 1:17.6 | standings right now and we're going middle out like Silicon Valley |
| 1:22.0 | So we're starting with the teams that are projected to have middleing records and then we're moving out toward the edges |
| 1:28.6 | And then we'll finish with the best and worst projected team and so today we are starting with two |
| 1:34.6 | NL central teams which happen to be grouped together the Reds and the Brewers. So later in this episode |
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