Effectively Wild Episode 1767: Goodbye World Series, Hello Winter Ball
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Meg Rowley and guest co-host Eric Longenhagen discuss the conclusion of the World Series, including how Brian Snitker and Dusty Baker managed their depleted pitching staffs, the future of postseason pitching, Jorge Soler’s pyrotechnics, when they realized Atlanta was going to win the Series, and what’s next for the Astros and the Braves. Then they turn their attention to winter ball, including the balance of talent between pitchers and hitters in the Arizona Fall League, the challenges the AFL presents as an evaluation environment, the players who have impressed Eric so far, including Curtis Mead, and finally, the prospects and playing environment in Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana.
Audio intro: Oasis, “Champagne Supernova”
Audio outro: Simon & Garfunkel, “A Hazy Shade of Winter”
Link to the FanGraphs Prospects Twitter account
Link to Dan Szymborski’s World Series Game 6 recap
Link to Kevin Goldstein’s piece on Game 7 of the 2019 World Series
Link to Jayson Stark’s piece on the weird and wild facts of the World Series
Link to Michael Baumann on Carlos Correa’s last ride with Houston
Link to David Laurila’s interview with Curtis Mead
Link to LIDOM’s league website
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| 0:00.0 | So we walk down the hall faster than a cannonball where we were getting high |
| 0:12.3 | So that you will find me Copping it the lambs fly high |
| 0:20.2 | In a champagne soup and over in the sky |
| 0:25.4 | So that you will find me Copping it the lambs fly high |
| 0:33.0 | In a champagne soup and over in the sky |
| 0:41.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 1767 of Connectively Wild |
| 0:45.4 | A fancraft space full podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Meg Rally of Fan Graphs and I am joined this morning by Eric Long and Hagen |
| 0:52.4 | Lead Prospect and Alistair Fan Graphs Good Morning |
| 0:54.9 | Good Morning, today I'm on a Fally Wednesday |
| 0:59.9 | Wednesday I wonder now that the World Series has concluded |
| 1:04.9 | And Major League Baseball is done for the year if it will become easier or harder to remember what day of the week it is |
| 1:14.9 | Because the rush of work and just all the craziness of October and the beginning part of November here |
| 1:21.9 | Often makes it hard to triangulate where one is in space and time |
| 1:26.9 | But I don't know that it will get easier once we start lacking the daily events that might otherwise orient us |
| 1:32.9 | I think that the playoff schedule has a greater impact on you |
| 1:40.9 | Yes |
| 1:41.9 | Because the editorial calendar shifts you don't have... you don't have a weekend anymore |
| 1:46.9 | No |
| 1:47.9 | I'm not sure if it will be the playoff |
| 1:51.9 | So I was going to save this till the end of the pod |
| 1:54.9 | But like you having moved down here to Arizona and like me getting to see you do this stretch of your job |
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