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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1517: Show Minor Leaguers the Money

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about advice for working from home, Chris Sale’s Tommy John surgery, concerns about pitcher health in a shortened season, the possibility of playing more doubleheaders when baseball comes back, how late would be too late for the season to start, the overuse, injury, and treatment of pitcher Wes Ferrell, how COVID-19 could affect MLB service time, rewatching old games and FOX Sports Detroit re-airing 2019 Tigers games, and baseball coming back in Japan and South Korea, then (39:58) talk to former minor league pitcher-turned-attorney Garrett Broshuis about the ongoing legal fight for improved pay for minor leaguers, how the pandemic has impacted minor leaguers, grassroots efforts to support temporarily unemployed players, the effect of public pressure on teams and MLB, the potential for a future minor league union, and his new organization, Advocates for Minor Leaguers (plus a postscript on two sets of same-named players).

Audio intro: Mapache, "Life on Fire"
Audio interstitial: Margo Price, "Pay Gap"
Audio outro: Smoke N Bones, "Nobody Knows"

Link to latest FG COVID-19 roundup
Link to Eno on injury spikes
Link to Pages From Baseball’s Past
Link to Wes Ferrell story
Link to article about MLB and ballpark workers
Link to article about lost service time
Link to story about re-airing Tigers games
Link to info on MLB games on YouTube
Link to FG games to rewatch, Part 1
Link to FG games to rewatch, Part 2
Link to article about doubleheaders
Link to article about baseball in Japan and South Korea
Link to Advocates for Minor Leaguers site
Link to Advocates for Minor Leaguers press release
Link to MLB press release about minor league pay
Link to ESPN article on minor league pay
Link to NYT article on Advocates for Minor Leaguers
Link to LAT article on Advocates for Minor Leaguers
Link to Adopt a Minor Leaguer
Link to More Than Baseball
Link to story on the two Mike Smiths
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

Sometimes I've cried, I feel the joy too

0:13.0

Now drink that jar, never I feel blue

0:22.0

Oh baby, how many days have flown by?

0:34.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1517 of Effectively Wild

0:38.0

a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:41.0

I'm Meg Rally of FanGraphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ringer, Ben Howeriel.

0:47.0

I am doing fairly well as I told you off air, subsisting on seamless and video games.

0:52.0

That's pretty much my life right now and not so different from my regular life,

0:57.0

but psychologically speaking, it's all different to do that by choice than it is to do it when you don't have the option to do much else.

1:04.0

So this has been obviously a weird week, how has yours been?

1:08.0

It's been weird. It's been a weird week time seems to be moving in very odd ways.

1:16.0

Sometimes very very fast and more often quite slow.

1:21.0

It is Friday and I thought to myself, what does Friday mean right now?

1:25.0

What does it mean?

1:28.0

Tomorrow is the weekend.

1:30.0

Tomorrow?

1:31.0

Yeah, well I mean for us this has been disruptive in some ways,

1:36.0

but a lot less disruptive than for many people in the sense that we were both working from home already.

1:42.0

You are a managing editor of a baseball site.

1:47.0

It's been affected by the fact that there's no baseball right now,

1:50.0

but it is at least a company where everyone is scattered across the country and works remotely already.

1:56.0

So I guess in terms of just workflow, it probably hasn't been that weird.

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