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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1668: Season Preview Series: Twins and Tigers

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about weirdness and whimsy in spring training, the Giants and Cleveland playing an unnecessary bottom of the ninth (without umpires), the 22-pitch plate appearance between Jordan Hicks and Luis Guillorme, Jacob deGrom’s ever-escalating velocity, and two recent research pieces, then preview the 2021 Twins (23:33) with Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic and the 2021 Tigers (59:27) with Evan Woodbery of the MLive Media Group.

Audio intro: Fruit Bats, "The Bottom of It"
Audio interstitial 1: Joel Plaskett, "Catch 22"
Audio interstitial 2: John Frusciante, "Central"
Audio outro: Will Butler, "Finish What I Started"

Link to story about Giants-Cleveland game
Link to Jesse’s Giants-Cleveland Twitter thread
Link to story about 22-pitch PA
Link to RJ McDaniel on the 22-pitch PA
Link to Forman tweet about timing the 22-pitch PA
Link to Russell Carleton on full-count fouls
Link to spring Statcast standouts
Link to story about deGrom’s spring speeds
Link to Matt Kelly on deGrom’s velo in 2020
Link to Travis Sawchik on deGrom’s velo in 2020
Link to Ben on moving the mound back
Link to Rob Mains on the modern TTO penalty
Link to Rob on the TTO penalty in the past
Link to Matt Trueblood’s Twins preview
Link to Aaron on impact Twins rookies
Link to Aaron on the playoff losing streak
Link to Aaron on the closer-less bullpen
Link to Aaron on Cruz
Link to Aaron on Colomé
Link to Aaron on Simmons’s defense
Link to Aaron on a Kirilloff extension
Link to Travis on Garver’s framing
Link to Dan Syzmborski on hitter bust candidates
Link to Evan on the Tigers’ spending
Link to Evan on Baddoo

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0:00.0

So happy that you got to the bottom of the fears that were bettering you

0:06.3

Then you found around stone and you were in it around like a Jew

0:12.0

No fear of the swinging wild open

0:17.0

Then you found yourself man and that's something

0:25.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1668 of Effectively Wild a Fangirl Spaceball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters

0:32.0

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangirls and I joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer

0:36.0

Ben, how are you?

0:37.0

I'm doing well. We are doing team previews today

0:40.0

We've got an ale central tofer Aaron Gleeman on the twins filed by Evan Woodberry on the tigers

0:46.0

But first I've got to ask you about a few sites from spring training

0:50.0

Because there's some extremely mech stuff going on in the whole week

0:55.0

Spring training is getting weird, weirder than usual

0:58.0

We've talked about a few of the weird occurrences

1:00.0

But one of the weirdest happened just a few days ago

1:04.0

Where the giants played the bottom of the ninth in a game against Cleveland

1:09.0

When the giants were winning the game already

1:12.0

And they all just played on

1:15.0

Which I think is what big leakers used to do up until 1880

1:19.0

I think Sam has brought up how in the early days of baseball

1:23.0

It was customary to play out the bottom of the ninth regardless of who was winning

1:27.0

But not so customary now

1:29.0

And the umpires pieced just in protest I guess they're like

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