Effectively Wild Episode 1550: Make Me Your Worst Offer
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the continued standstill over starting the season, MLB’s series of superficially different, substantively identical, and equally unproductive proposals, public perceptions of the owners’ and players’ positions, the difference between a 50-game season and an 80-game season, and how the “negotiations” seem destined to end, plus a Stat Blast about repeatedly drafted players. Then (27:01) they talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about which teams did and didn’t appear to do well in the 2020 draft, how limiting the draft to five rounds affected team strategy, how the pandemic changed draft prep and draft predictions, the potential of Tigers top pick Spencer Torkelson and other notable names, what will happen to the hundreds of players who didn’t get drafted, and the latest on when and where prospects will play in 2020.
Audio intro: Mates of State, "My Only Offer"
Audio interstitial: I Was a King, "Eric"
Audio outro: Wild Flag, "Short Version"
Link to latest Craig Edwards analysis
Link to Jeff Passan report on most recent MLB offer
Link to Eno on season length
Link to Angus Kellett’s Stat Blast song cover
Link to spreadsheet about most-drafted players
Link to Eric’s 2020 draft primer
Link to Eric’s Day 1 draft recap
Link to Eric’s draft odds and ends
Link to story about amateurs signing with NPB teams
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| 0:00.0 | My friends say all the green, my friends say all the green, |
| 0:04.0 | Even to our feet, even to our debris, |
| 0:08.0 | And secret we believe, and secret we believe, |
| 0:12.0 | We're nothing, nothing, nothing that we need. |
| 0:17.0 | No, oh, oh, it's my only offer, |
| 0:20.0 | Stifled coffins of myself, |
| 0:24.0 | Uh-oh, uh-oh, or someone else. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1550 of effectively wild |
| 0:31.0 | a fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Meg Rally of Fan Graphs, and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ringer. |
| 0:39.0 | Ben Horeal. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm doing alright. We have not talked in a couple weeks. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, it's been, it's been a minute, nice to hear your voice, dude. |
| 0:46.0 | Yes, yours too. And in just a moment, we will hear Eric Long and Higgins voice. |
| 0:51.0 | He will be joining us to talk about the very abbreviated MLB draft |
| 0:56.0 | that took place this week before we get to Eric. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't know, there's almost nothing new to say about the prospect for a season |
| 1:05.0 | when we talked two weeks ago. |
| 1:07.0 | There is no deal to start the season, |
| 1:09.0 | and now that we're talking, there is no deal to start the season. |
| 1:12.0 | Just before we started recording, |
| 1:15.0 | the latest offer was put forth by MLB to the Players Association. |
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