Effectively Wild Episode 1719: The Derby and the Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Rob Manfred teasing a possible permanent reprieve from zombie runners and seven-inning doubleheaders, react to Monday’s Home Run Derby and outpouring of appreciation for Shohei Ohtani, and lament Ronald Acuña Jr.’s season-ending injury (and assess the state of the Braves). Then (45:46) they bring on FanGraphs Lead Prospect Analyst Eric Longenhagen and National Writer Kevin Goldstein to break down the amateur draft, touching on the Pirates’ surprising first-overall pick, the best player picked, draft-day maneuvering, players who fell further than expected, how to break news about the next players picked, teams with “types,” the best and most eyebrow-raising team approaches, the Angels’ no-hitter draft, the draftees who’ll make the majors fastest, the potential two-way players, the oldest player ever drafted, the impact of the late draft date, the future of the draft, standouts at the Futures Game, and more.
Audio intro: Willie Nelson, "Denver"
Audio interstitial: Eli “Paperboy” Reed, "Pick a Number"
Audio outro: Bob Seger, "Get Out of Denver"
Link to story about Manfred’s comments
Link to story about Players Alliance donation
Link to story about Ohtani ASG rules
Link to Ben on the Derby
Link to MLB The Show Tatis promo
Link to MLB Network Ohtani interview
Link to players’ reactions to Ohtani
Link to amateur draft results
Link to Eric and Kevin’s last mock draft
Link to Eric and Kevin’s Day 1 draft recap
Link to story on the Angels’ draft
Link to list of oldest players drafted
Link to Ben on Ohtani’s origin story
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| 0:00.0 | The bright lights of Denver are shining like diamonds, |
| 0:05.7 | Black 10,000 jewels in the sky. |
| 0:11.6 | And it's nobody's best for you going or where you come from. |
| 0:17.4 | And your judge by the look in your eye. |
| 0:22.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1719 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:25.7 | a fan-grapfe Spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs and I joined as always by Ben Lumberger of the Ringer. |
| 0:32.5 | Then how are you? |
| 0:33.7 | I'm okay. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Miles High Meg. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm dressed from Denver today. |
| 0:37.5 | Cast the air up there. |
| 0:38.9 | Uh, then, especially when you are tired from a couple of days of draft coverage, |
| 0:44.4 | but, uh, but significantly cooler than the greater Phoenix area. |
| 0:47.4 | So it's got that going for it. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah, so we've got a busy day today. |
| 0:51.8 | We will be welcoming on a couple of fan graphs draft dudes |
| 0:55.5 | later on in this episode, Kevin Goldstein and Eric Long and Higgin will be here |
| 0:59.2 | telling us about the draft and a little bit about the futures game. |
| 1:02.6 | And we've got to talk Derby. |
| 1:04.6 | But before that, you bring me some glad tidings today because you attended |
| 1:09.6 | the BBWA meetings with Tony Clark and then separately Rob Manfred on Tuesday. |
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