Effectively Wild Episode 1783: The Rumor Chill

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the slow drip of baseball news during the lockout, why MLB’s competitive balance gets a bad rap, the Rays’ historic collective minor league winning percentage, and the difficulty of evaluating individual defense in the age of Statcast-based and non-Statcast-based metrics. Then (33:09) they continue their series of discussions […]

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0:00.0	It's going, it's going, it's going.
0:16.0	There's something in the secret place and now it's gone.
0:20.0	We're saying the way it goes, it happens, something's going wrong.
0:23.0	They look at me, I've been heard, and my friend is going on.
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to episode 17 of EV3 of Effective 3 Wild.
0:33.0	A fair raff baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:36.0	I'm Meg Raleigh, fan-grafts, and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer.
0:40.0	Ben, how are you?
0:41.0	It's starved for baseball news.
0:43.0	Oh, no.
0:44.0	I guess you can say.
0:45.0	Yeah, I know mid-december is not always an active time,
0:49.0	but lockout-december hits different.
0:52.0	It's just crickets.
0:54.0	It's not even crickets.
0:56.0	It's like when you get used to the sound of crickets,
0:58.0	and then the crickets stop, and you realize that it's extremely quiet.
1:02.0	I feel like the person in the movie who says,
1:04.0	it's quiet, too quiet.
1:06.0	Even that background murmur of the offseason of just meaningless rumors and nonsense,
1:14.0	but something that comes across your trancem, we're getting none of that.
1:19.0	I mean, there's a little bit of news, and there are people writing mock articles
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