Effectively Wild Episode 1724: Changing of the Guardians
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the new name and look of Cleveland’s MLB team, the Guardians, then react to the Rays trading for Nelson Cruz and dealing away Rich Hill, analyze a new electronic system for sending signs from catchers to pitchers that’s about to be tested in A ball, and salute Juan Soto’s post-Home Run Derby hot streak. Then (38:42) they bring on FanGraphs writers Ben Clemens and Kevin Goldstein to talk about their just-completed ranking of the 50 players with the most trade value, touching on how the series’ sausage was made, the most divisive players, the toughest omissions, valuing pitchers vs. hitters, evaluating Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Max Kepler, Ramón Laureano, and other players, synthesizing stats and scouting info (and production and pay), what they expect at this year’s trade deadline, and how teams’ behavior at the deadline has changed (plus a postscript on historic pitching matchups and more alternate cycles).
Audio intro: Lou Reed, "Guardian Angel"
Audio interstitial: The Bats, "Trade in Silence"
Audio outro: Sloan, "I Can Feel It"
Link to Guardians announcement video
Link to Guardians logo and lettering
Link to Guardians uniforms
Link to story on Tom Hanks and Cleveland
Link to article about the Guardians name selection
Link to Dan Szymborski on the Cruz trade
Link to BP IL Ledger
Link to report on electronic signs system
Link to story on Soto and the Derby
Link to story about the Derby “curse”
Link to Trade Value series
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| 0:00.0 | I had a guardian angel that's what this is all about. |
| 0:11.0 | I have a guardian angel, I keep them in my head. |
| 0:23.0 | When I'm alone and become afraid, |
| 0:26.0 | he saved my life instead. |
| 0:29.0 | When I'm alone and become afraid, |
| 0:32.0 | he saved my life instead. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1724 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:39.0 | a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringr. |
| 0:46.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:47.0 | Doing alright, how are you? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm good, I'm noting copy-editing errors in team announcements, |
| 0:52.0 | so I'm just rolling along, getting through to myself. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, well we have to talk about that team announcement. |
| 0:58.0 | So we have a couple guests coming up later in this episode. |
| 1:01.0 | We'll be talking to Ben Clemens and Kevin Goldstein of band graphs |
| 1:04.0 | about their just completed trade value series, |
| 1:07.0 | which has been running throughout the week at fan graphs, |
| 1:10.0 | ranking the best players in baseball in terms of the most value they have |
| 1:14.0 | on the trade market in theory, |
| 1:16.0 | and we'll also get into the upcoming trade deadline. |
| 1:19.0 | And when they're been in Kevin, think this will be a busy one or not. |
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