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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1804: Trees of the Trade

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about one of Ben’s most laborious baseball-writing experiences, answer listener emails about playing MLB games at minor league affiliates’ parks, how scouting reports affect the times-through-the-order penalty, and what they would do if they discovered that Roberto Clemente had been credited with one hit too many, share a Stat Blast (36:20) about times when the best hitters in each league (and best pitchers in each league) played in the same city, and then (46:24) talk to Aidan Gruber about his website, MLB Trade Trees, which tracks and displays trade/transaction trees for every trade in AL/NL history.

Audio intro: Still Corners, “Into the Trees
Audio interstitial: David Duchovny, “3000
Audio outro: Pulp, “The Trees

Link to FanGraphs redesign
Link to Ben’s trade trees article
Link to Ben Clemens on fastballs
Link to article on old stat changes
Link to article on Wilson’s RBI
Link to Craig on artificial scarcity
Link to video of Clemente’s hit
Link to Stat Blast hitter data
Link to Stat Blast pitcher data
Link to episode on lopsided trades
Link to Ben on Schilling trades
Link to Aidan’s Dybzinski post
Link to Dybzinski trade tree
Link to Stephens trade tree
Link to players traded for themselves
Link to Baseball Trade Values site
Link to Aidan’s code on GitHub
Link to contact Aidan
Link to MLB Trade Trees

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0:00.0

Sharing

0:05.9

Is it

0:11.9

for

0:21.8

And then we'll be back.

0:35.8

Hello and welcome to episode 1804 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphs podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:41.8

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphs, and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of The Ringer.

0:45.8

Ben, how are you?

0:46.8

I'm okay. How's Fan Graphs redesign day going?

0:49.8

Well, we talked about last time is now live.

0:53.8

It's here. I think generally pretty well, I think that we have heard some feedback about things that people like and things that people don't.

1:04.8

Some of that feedback we will act on, others of it we will say, allow the change to wash over you and see how you feel.

1:11.8

But I don't know, pictures are good. I hope that this strikes the right balance between inviting new folks who are less familiar with the site to come to the landing page and be like, I want to look at that piece that looks nifty and people who have been long time site users being able to find what they're used to.

1:31.8

I think it's good.

1:32.8

Change is inevitable and sometimes productive.

1:36.8

Sometimes it comes with big pictures.

1:38.8

So there you go.

1:41.8

We have a guest a little later in this episode.

1:45.8

We're going to be talking to Aiden Gruber who designed a new site called MLBTradeTrees.com.

1:50.8

This is something that I've been hoping someone would make for years.

1:55.8

Maybe the most traumatic memory of my baseball writing career is an article I did for Grantland back in 2014 called MLB Transaction Trees.

2:06.8

And the idea was just to look for the longest chains of transactions.

2:11.8

So someone gets dealt.

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