Effectively Wild Episode 1658: Season Preview Series: Cardinals and Cleveland
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2021
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about discordant college baseball uniform fonts, a piece by Blake Snell in The Players’ Tribune, and whether there’s a competitive advantage in making the bullpen less visible to the pitcher on the mound, then preview the 2021 Cardinals (15:13) with Will Leitch of MLB.com (and elsewhere) and the 2021 Cleveland baseball team (58:59) with Zack Meisel of The Athletic, plus a postscript about the underrated (and re-signed) Brett Gardner.
Audio intro: The Essex Green, "Uniform"
Audio interstitial 1: William Prince, "Reliever"
Audio interstitial 2: The Essex Green, "Cardinal Points"
Audio outro: Devin Davis, "Giant Spiders"
Link to Meg’s tweets about uniforms
Link to Snell’s column
Link to Will on the Arenado deal
Link to NL Central roundtable with Will
Link to preorder Will’s novel
Link to Will’s newsletter
Link to Zack on Francona
Link to The Athletic bracket of new team names
Link to Zack on Rosario
Link to Zack on McKenzie
Link to Zack on Cleveland’s new middle infield
Link to Zack on Cleveland’s pitcher development
Link to EW episode about Cleveland’s pitching powerhouse
Link to The Selby is Godcast
Link to Yankees position-player WAR leaderboard
Link to Yankees WAR Runs DP+Baserunning leaderboard
Link to 2010-20 MLB position-player WAR leaderboard
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I get ahead when you can be beautiful |
| 0:04.0 | City uniform |
| 0:06.0 | All the kind heard in uniform |
| 0:09.0 | Why be yourself when you can do |
| 0:12.0 | City uniform |
| 0:14.0 | All the kind heard in uniform |
| 0:18.0 | Why be yourself when you can be ill |
| 0:22.0 | You can be ill |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1658 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:31.0 | Faggraph Spaceball Podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Faggraphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer |
| 0:38.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:39.0 | Do you win not bad? I gather that you've been watching some college baseball today |
| 0:43.0 | Ben, I've been watching college baseball |
| 0:46.0 | You have some uniform font notes |
| 0:48.0 | I just think that, you know, have you ever had the experience of, well, you know how we used to go to restaurants |
| 0:56.0 | They clearly recalled that |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, we used to go to restaurants and sometimes there would be a new restaurant that would open |
| 1:02.0 | And you'd be excited to go eat inside because that didn't seem terrifying |
| 1:06.0 | And you'd go there and you'd look at the menu and you'd be like |
| 1:09.0 | There's a lot of different kinds of stuff on this menu |
| 1:12.0 | I wonder if they do all of these kinds of things well |
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