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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1652: The Best of Tweets, the Worst of Tweets

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the latest developments for their minor league free agent draft teams, then discuss the Dodgers signing reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer to an unexpected and unusually structured record contract, touching on the good and bad of Bauer, the incredible Dodgers-Padres arms race, and much more. […]

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0:00.0

She said she said now Türkiye.

0:26.5

Hello and welcome to episode 1652 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grouse baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:33.9

I'm Meg Rowley, a fan-grouse, and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ranger. Ben, how are you?

0:39.1

I'm doing quite well. Are you excited to talk about the most important picture signing of the day?

0:45.2

Indeed I am. The most important, at least for your and our purpose, your and our?

0:49.7

What? Oh no, Ben. You're in mine? You're in mine?

0:55.5

You're in, leave all of this, leave us in Dylan.

0:59.2

That's not right. You're in mine. You're in my minor league free agent draft purposes.

1:03.9

Congratulations. I mean, I'm not saying you're going to win, but I think that when

1:07.8

Michael Tenevich signs with the Rangers on a guaranteed major league contract.

1:12.4

Yes. Three words, Read them in Weep, major league contract.

1:17.0

Two million dollars plus incentives.

1:19.9

Ben and they're a bad team. So I think he's going to throw as many innings as his health allows.

1:26.1

So Ben, congratulations. This is a punishing blow for my chances.

1:31.7

And I am sad and a little defeated. And I do not know if my Ragtag band of

1:38.9

missfits can equal a guaranteed major league innings on a bad team.

1:43.5

So yeah, I don't know how many innings his health will allow.

1:46.9

Yeah, I guess that's a question. He's getting the shot.

1:49.8

And my minor league free agent team did suffer a setback though in that the angels

1:56.1

traded for Dexter Fowler, which is bad news for I think my seventh or eighth round pick,

2:01.4

Scott Shibler, backup angels outfielder, just got bumped down a spot on the Depth chart.

2:06.9

So you can console yourself with that, I suppose. But yeah, feeling pretty good about the fault

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