Effectively Wild Episode 1656: Season Preview Series: Rays and Brewers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the beginning of the ninth annual Effectively Wild team-by-team season preview series, discuss a trio of players (Justin Turner, James Paxton, and Jake Arrieta) who re-signed with their most recent or former teams, and preview the 2021 Rays (16:01) with Adam Berry of MLB.com and the 2021 Brewers (57:25) with Will Sammon of The Athletic.
Audio intro: Camera Obscura, "Do it Again"
Audio interstitial 1: The Bats, "The Rays"
Audio interstitial 2: Bombadil, "Wisconsin Wedding"
Audio outro: The Rembrandts, "End of the Beginning"
Link to recap of 2020 team predictions
Link to Jared Diamond on the Rays’ executive tree
Link to Eric Longenhagen’s Rays prospects list
Link to Ben on the opener and Yarbrough
Link to Ian Malinowski on Yarbrough’s arb case
Link to Tony Wolfe on Yelich
Link to Will on Burnes
Link to Will on Williams
Link to Marc Carig on Williams
Link to Jake Mailhot on Williams
Link to Will on Lindblom
Link to Will on Wong and Hiura
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| 0:00.0 | You, you, you're open to run |
| 0:05.0 | Can you see it, tears on this cloth? |
| 0:11.0 | One more time, run |
| 0:17.0 | Let's do it again, let's do it again |
| 0:23.0 | Let's do it again, let's do it again |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1656 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft space ball podcast brought to you by Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Meg Rallye of fancrafts and I am brought to you as always |
| 0:42.0 | Leave it in, leave it in, and brought to you as always by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:45.0 | And I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer |
| 0:48.0 | You know, we do Saturday pods and sometimes you're just not a sharp, not a sharp |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, in fact it's Sunday, that's how not sharp you are |
| 0:57.0 | Well, whatever day it is, we are both brought to you by our Patreon Spurs |
| 1:01.0 | And yeah, it begins, pictures and catchers are reporting to spring training this week |
| 1:06.0 | And we are reporting to our spring training |
| 1:08.0 | We are embarking on, I believe, the ninth annual Effectively Wild Team Preview podcast series |
| 1:15.0 | Which is always, I think, a highlight for some people |
| 1:19.0 | People really seem to like this |
| 1:21.0 | It can be a bit of a slog from a scheduling and recording standpoint |
| 1:25.0 | But for those who have not been with us before |
| 1:28.0 | We are going to talk about every team between now and opening day |
| 1:32.0 | I think we have planned it out so that if we stick to our schedule of doing two team preview podcasts per week |
| 1:39.0 | We will finish just before opening day and we'll still stick in some email shows |
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