Effectively Wild Episode 1769: The Lockout Lookout
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley talk to Evan Drellich, senior writer for The Athletic, about the state of labor negotiations between MLB and the MLBPA, the major issues separating the two sides, the odds of a work stoppage, how long a potential lockout could last, how the CBA talks may affect transaction activity, how previous rounds of bargaining led to this one, whether a salary cap and floor could work, transitioning from covering teams as a beat writer to covering the business of baseball, the future of minor league housing and local broadcast blackouts, breaking the Astros sign-stealing story, and collaborating on reporting with Ken Rosenthal.
Audio intro: Ian M Bailey, "Take it or Leave it"
Audio outro: Attic Lights, "Lock Me Out"
Link to Evan on how a lockout would work
Link to Evan on previous bargaining rounds
Link to Evan on latest MLBPA proposal
Link to Evan on Marvin Miller
Link to Ben on Lords of the Realm
Link to Morning Consult poll
Link to Greg Bouris EW interview
Link to Evan on blackouts and streaming
Link to report about future streaming service
Link to Evan on minor league housing
Link to The Athletic Baseball Show
Link to original sign-stealing report
Link to preorder Evan’s book
Link to Stove League teaser video
Link to stream Stove League via Kocowa
Link to stream Stove League via Viki
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| 0:00.0 | I'm standing on the edge of the world and I'm looking down |
| 0:07.0 | I sit in the cold skin and souls there's a battle around |
| 0:15.0 | How will we explain where we're too far down the line? |
| 0:22.0 | Will you take it or leave it this time? |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 7369 of Effectively Wild, a baseball |
| 0:36.8 | podcast from Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.0 | I am Ben Hingrick of the Ringer joined as always by Meg Rally of Vangrass. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello Meg, hello. |
| 0:46.0 | We've got a guest today because in many respects this seems like the start of a |
| 0:51.0 | normal offseason. |
| 0:52.0 | If you go to MLP trade rumors right now you will see stories there that seem reflective |
| 0:57.0 | of a normal early November. |
| 1:00.0 | The news that often flows immediately after the start of the season has picked up as |
| 1:04.0 | usual gold glivers are getting announced and the red seem to be deconstructing |
| 1:09.0 | their roster and players who played her in October like Alex Breggman or |
| 1:13.0 | getting surgery and Jason Tingler is the twins bench coach now and the |
| 1:17.0 | mets have tried and failed to talk to many more GM candidates and of course |
| 1:21.0 | free agent rankings are at Vangrass big top 50 list is out and I'll be |
| 1:26.0 | trade rumors list is out and we will devote our next episode to that topic. |
| 1:31.0 | However, this is not a normal offseason or at least not a normal month of the |
| 1:36.0 | offseason and the idea that it's just going to be baseball business as usual is |
| 1:40.0 | still somewhat aspirational. |
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