Effectively Wild Episode 1671: Season Preview Series: Mets and Marlins
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the latest spring exploits of Shohei Ohtani, the Royals extending Salvador Perez, rooting against injuries in spring training, and a mysterious former major leaguer known only as “Lewis,” then preview the 2021 Mets (37:09) with Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News and the 2021 Marlins (1:14:26) with Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald.
Audio intro: Mark Knopfler, "Nobody Does That"
Audio interstitial 1: Radiohead, "Lewis (Mistreated)"
Audio interstitial 2: Queen, "Put Out the Fire"
Audio outro: Feist, "Get it Wrong, Get it Right"
Link to video of Ohtani’s two-way game
Link to Ben Clemens on the Perez extension
Link to Jared Diamond on the Royals’ humane behavior
Link to Rustin Dodd on the Royals’ anti-porn campaign
Link to “Lewis” Wikipedia page
Link to “Lewis” B-Ref page
Link to “Lewis” on the Stathead ERA leaderboard
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 Deesha on Jared Porter
Link to article on the Mets’ defense
Link to Jordan on Kim Ng
Link to Stephanie Apstein on Kim Ng
Link to Jordan on the Marlins’ pandemic year
Link to story about Marlins security guard
Link to Realmuto cracking the fish tank
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| 0:00.0 | I like the way you work the opposition |
| 0:05.2 | Nobody knows that quite the way you do |
| 0:10.2 | When you want to smoke the competition |
| 0:15.6 | Nobody knows that quite like you |
| 0:18.2 | Nobody knows that |
| 0:23.2 | Nobody knows that |
| 0:28.0 | Nobody knows that |
| 0:29.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1671 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:33.2 | A fancrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Negralea Fangrafts and I am joined as always by Ben Limberger of the Ringer |
| 0:40.2 | Ben how are you? |
| 0:41.2 | Well as goes show heo-tani so goes my mood |
| 0:44.2 | So I'm doing quite well, thank you |
| 0:47.2 | I'm just you know the world presents us |
| 0:50.2 | Ben with the opportunities for our own interests to be |
| 0:54.2 | sort of misaligned with other peoples |
| 0:56.2 | And that's always a bummer because you just want people to do well |
| 1:00.2 | And then sometimes the world presents you with a chance that you know the stuff you want for people you don't know |
| 1:06.2 | And the stuff you want for people you do they just match up perfectly |
| 1:09.2 | And so I would want you know show a tani to have the best stuff |
| 1:14.2 | No matter how you felt about him |
| 1:16.2 | Because he seems like a good sort and he's a fun exciting player |
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