Effectively Wild Episode 1730: The Mike Trout 30th Birthday Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman of Céspedes Family BBQ banter about Jake’s baseball bike trip (and Jordan’s accompanying car ride) from New York to Chicago. Then, in honor of Mike Trout’s 30th birthday, they draft their favorite things about Trout and his incredible career.
Audio intro: Jay-Z, "30 Something"
Audio outro: Smash Mouth, "You Are My Number One"
Link to Jake’s fundraising site
Link to Jake’s trip stats
Link to Episode 762
Link to Sam on Trout and Grichuk
Link to Sam on Trout’s 2012 season
Link to story on Trout’s no. 1 jersey
Link to post about Trout’s August 2015
Link to video of Trout’s left-handed BP
Link to Pedro Moura on Trout’s future
Link to Ben on Trout’s rookie year
Link to Ben on Trout’s dad
Link to Trout’s spring training stats
Link to Trout’s Hardy homer robbery
Link to 2009 draft video
Link to Trout Weather Channel video
Link to 2012 SuperPretzel press release
Link to 2016 SuperPretzel ad
Link to SuperPretzel website
Link to list of Trout hypotheticals
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| 0:00.0 | Thou he's the new 20 |
| 0:01.4 | I'm gon' fly ya still |
| 0:03.0 | You shunned warts like fire trails |
| 0:05.2 | Uh-uh |
| 0:05.7 | Fossil arms |
| 0:06.6 | Uh-uh |
| 0:07.0 | The next dawn |
| 0:07.9 | Uh-uh |
| 0:08.3 | He ain't got it |
| 0:09.1 | Uh-uh |
| 0:09.5 | The next one |
| 0:10.4 | Y'all |
| 0:10.9 | Still here |
| 0:11.7 | Yeah |
| 0:12.2 | Still here |
| 0:13.0 | Like Mike gotta start playing with these children |
| 0:15.3 | I'ma bully with the bucks |
| 0:17.1 | Like the pattern of the shoes for you |
| 0:18.9 | Youngin' I got the full of unit tucks |
| 0:20.9 | Now what's my passion? |
| 0:22.3 | Now I'm so grown up |
| 0:23.3 | I don't got one gun on me |
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