Effectively Wild Episode 1637: The 2021 Minor League Free Agent Draft

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the experience of podcasting about baseball in 2020, what purpose they think the Hall of Fame serves, and whether they would consider giving up their Hall of Fame ballots, then ring in the new year by extending an old tradition and conducting the eighth annual Effectively Wild Minor […]

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0:00.0	Oh, it's a new year, where there comes new open new fears
0:05.0	Many young men, wasn't here as he asked me
0:10.0	What in this is us to stay here, said I
0:15.0	Don't know much and I'm not lying
0:20.0	But I think you just have to keep on trying
0:25.0	And I know I am naive, but if anything
0:32.0	That's what's going to save me
0:37.0	That's what's going to save me
0:41.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1637 of Effectively Wild
0:45.0	A Fangraft Space Ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:48.0	I'm Meg Rowley at Fangrafts and I joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer
0:52.0	Ben, how are you?
0:53.0	I'm relieved that we have reached the last episode of 2020
0:58.0	And the last day of 2021
1:00.0	Yeah, you may be hearing this in 2021, a different world
1:04.0	But we are recording this on New Year's Eve and boy, it's been a year
1:08.0	Yeah, it's been difficult to do this podcast at times this year
1:12.0	But I think we're glad that we've done it
1:15.0	And we hope that the listeners are glad that we've done it
1:18.0	It was just tough to talk about baseball for a lot of this year
1:22.0	Both for reasons involving baseball and reasons not involving baseball at all
1:27.0	But somehow we managed to muddle our way through 150 plus episodes of this thing
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