Effectively Wild Episode 1778: The Storm Before the Calm
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the onslaught of transaction activity leading up to the expiration of the CBA, touching on why they and others misread how fast the market would move, why players and teams have done deals so quickly and how the burst of spending could affect labor talks, the group of non-playoff teams that are trying to win, the Rangers and Mets pushing in their chips, the futures of Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, and Javier Báez, Max Scherzer’s record-breaking contract, Kevin Gausman vs. Robbie Ray, the aesthetics of Starling Marte, how close to contention the Mariners, Tigers, and Marlins might be, the Byron Buxton extension and the state of the Twins, the prominent teams that haven’t been busy, what the Rockies are thinking, where Carlos Correa could end up, and more.
Audio intro: The Orange Peels, "All at Once"
Audio outro: Bee Gees, "All My Christmases Came at Once"
Link to Dan Syzmborski on the Mets’ signings
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Scherzer signing
Link to Dan on the Semien signing
Link to Kevin Goldstein on the Seager signing
Link to Dan on the Ray signing
Link to Ben Clemens on the Gausman signing
Link to Brendan Gawlowski on the Frazier trade
Link to Ben Clemens on the Buxton extension
Link to Justin Choi on the Gray signing
Link to Ben Clemens on the Báez signing
Link to Danny Knobler on a signing deadline
Link to MLB-proposed free-agent signing deadline
Link to MLB.com on a signing deadline
Link to SI on speeding up free agency
Link to RosterResource payroll page
Link to Ken Rosenthal on Correa
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| 0:00.0 | But I can't bring the sea home |
| 0:05.0 | You can't resist to hear all the words I think into sea |
| 0:15.0 | All the words I can see you |
| 0:21.0 | All I have is this feeling |
| 0:27.0 | All I want is to see you |
| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1778 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:40.0 | Phantographs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:43.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Phantographs |
| 0:47.0 | Hello Meg |
| 0:48.0 | Hello |
| 0:49.0 | I rarely remember my dreams which is good I think because I can't bore people by |
| 0:54.0 | describing my dreams but since we last spoke I had two dreams about the |
| 0:59.0 | podcast that I remembered in one I got fired for recording the podcast |
| 1:05.0 | while on the job I was still an intern for the Yankees for some reason and I was trying |
| 1:10.0 | to record a podcast during the middle of the day and I commentdeered an |
| 1:14.0 | office and I closed all the windows and tried to sound proof it but somehow I was found |
| 1:19.0 | out and I was fired afterward for podcasting on the job and in the second dream |
| 1:26.0 | I dreamed specifically about this episode and what we would talk about and my |
| 1:31.0 | fear was that we would have nothing to talk about and I was trying to brainstorm |
| 1:36.0 | in my sleep I was like we could talk about like the fact that they changed the |
| 1:40.0 | bases they use bigger bases in the miners this year and they changed the |
| 1:45.0 | step-off rule and pick-off rules and boy that really changed stolen base |
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