Effectively Wild Episode 1496: The Mookie Betts Breakdown
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley break down the three-team Mookie Betts blockbuster, analyzing the historic strangeness of a player as good and young as Mookie being moved, what it means for the Red Sox and Dodgers competitively and financially, how Red Sox fans must feel about Betts (and David Price) being traded, why the Red Sox wanted to move Mookie and whether their reasons are sound, and what the Sox got back in Brusdar Graterol and Alex Verdugo (plus banter about the Twins’ acquisition of Kenta Maeda, the corresponding Dodgers-Angels trade involving Joc Pederson, Ross Stripling, and Luis Rengifo, the Astros hiring James Click as their new GM, and Rays execs and internet nerds taking over teams).
Audio intro: Grateful Dead, "He’s Gone"
Audio outro: Brian Eno, "Here He Comes"
Link to Ben on the Betts trade
Link to Dan’s Mookie post
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Where he's gone, why not? |
| 0:06.0 | Where he's gone, he's gone |
| 0:18.0 | I have seen no commodity |
| 0:23.0 | Rolling down the track |
| 0:26.0 | He's gone, he's gone |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm just gonna bring him back |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1496 of Effectively Wilde A baseball podcast from |
| 0:44.0 | Fandcrafts presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Edmund Berg of the Ringer and also apparently Spotify |
| 0:50.0 | It's been an interesting last 24 hours |
| 0:53.0 | And I am joined by Meg Rally of Fandcrafts midweek Meg |
| 0:58.0 | Midweek Meg, just a Fandcrafts |
| 1:00.0 | Yes, as far as we know |
| 1:03.0 | As far as we know |
| 1:05.0 | So we are here to talk about a move that we have been wondering about and anticipating for months now |
| 1:13.0 | Mookybets was actually traded, it finally happened |
| 1:17.0 | It finally happened |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, and even though we have had months to get used to the idea, I never really did |
| 1:25.0 | And right up until this week when the rumors seemed to solidify |
| 1:30.0 | I hadn't completely believed that it was gonna happen |
| 1:33.0 | I thought the odds were probably still against it because of the caliber of player that Mooky is |
| 1:39.0 | But let's lay out the terms, not that any of you have not hurt this by this point |
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