Effectively Wild Episode 1635: The Padres’ Wild Day
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen convene to discuss the latest epic Padres transaction spree (in which San Diego traded for Blake Snell and Yu Darvish and signed Ha-seong Kim 김하성), touching on A.J. Preller’s penchant for frenetic activity, the Padres’ rebuilt rotation and crowded infield, the prospect packages going to the Rays and the Cubs, the state of the stacked Rays and Padres farm systems, why the Rays traded Snell, what dealing Darvish signifies for the Cubs, salary dumps vs. cost-cutting competitive trades, whether the Padres can catch the Dodgers, and much more.
Audio intro: Bring it On (Original Broadway Cast Recording), "It’s All Happening"
Audio outro: The Posies, "All in a Day’s Work"
Link to Ben Clemens on the Snell trade
Link to Brendan Gawlowski on the Kim signing
Link to Eric on the Rays’ system
Link to Eric on the Cubs’ return for Darvish
Link to Craig Edwards on the Darvish trade
Link to Ben on Preller’s trades
Link to Ben on the formerly nondescript Padres
Link to FanGraphs farm system rankings
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up, this is how it's going to be. |
| 0:02.3 | We'll qualify in finals and shine on TV and we are gonna need a new routine. |
| 0:07.0 | We need some new dudes on our new team. |
| 0:09.8 | We need our very best boys we can find. |
| 0:12.2 | It's gonna be hot and it's gonna take time. |
| 0:15.0 | But if we stay on our grind, |
| 0:17.2 | we're all just gonna watch us shine. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 1635 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:24.0 | a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Fan Graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of The Ringer. |
| 0:31.4 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:32.6 | I am overwhelmed. |
| 0:34.4 | This is not an emergency episode technically because we were supposed to record it episode anyway. |
| 0:40.1 | But if we hadn't, then this would have been an emergency podcast worthy. |
| 0:43.8 | It's the Preller Pocalypse again. |
| 0:46.1 | Yes, the Preller Pocalypse. |
| 0:48.1 | And to help us sort through the Preller Pocalypse, |
| 0:50.6 | because it seems like we get at least one year is |
| 0:53.1 | Fan Graphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen to tell us about all the many, many prospects |
| 0:57.9 | who have exited the Padre system over the last 24 hours, Eric Howerio. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm great. I don't have 27 more prospect lists of unprecedented length to do on my own. |
| 1:08.6 | So this is fine. |
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