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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1566: Season Preview Series: Dodgers and Orioles

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mariners prospect Julio Rodriguez’s broken wrist, Meg’s all-time most disappointing Mariners, the Rays’ five-man infield, listener responses to two emails from the previous episode, and news about Freddie Freeman and Yasiel Puig, then complete the 2020 season preview series by (16:23) previewing the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers with The Athletic’s Pedro Moura, and the 2020 Baltimore Orioles (53:26) with MLB.com’s Joe Trezza.

Audio intro: The Replacements, "The Last"
Audio interstitial 1: Haim, "Los Angeles"
Audio interstitial 2: Blur, "This is a Low"
Audio outro: RJD2 (Feat. Blueprint), "Final Frontier"

Link to story about the Rays’ five-man infield
Link to listener Austin’s boost zone graphic
Link to Ben on Dave Roberts in 2019
Link to Pedro on Pollock and COVID-19
Link to Pedro on the legend of Chico
Link to FanGraphs post on Orioles fan event
Link to Ben on MLB’s 2020 strikeout rate
Link to Ben on sabermetrics in the 60-game season
Link to The MVP Machine with Orioles afterword

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0:00.0

This is the world it runs to mom

0:05.0

It's too late to run like it

0:10.0

I guess I will tell you cause I don't want to ask

0:15.0

That this won't be your last

0:19.0

This one child is killing you

0:24.0

This one's your last chance

0:28.0

To make this last one really

0:32.0

For last

0:34.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1566 of Effectively Wild

0:38.0

A fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

0:41.0

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fan Graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberga

0:45.0

The Ringer Ben How are you?

0:47.0

I'm doing alright, how are you?

0:49.0

I'm doing okay

0:50.0

We made it

0:51.0

The final season preview episode

0:53.0

It only took like six months in this year

0:56.0

But we did it, we're here

0:58.0

You said we made it and I was like

1:00.0

I could have lied to so many times

1:04.0

You could be talking about almost anything

1:06.0

Yes here we are

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