Effectively Wild Episode 1804: Trees of the Trade

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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