Effectively Wild Episode 1822: Nutting Doing
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Cardinals breaking the post-lockout free-agent signing seal, what the pre-Opening Day market will look like, day-after reflections on the new CBA (including an alternative term for tanking), the benefits and drawbacks of MLB broadcasts on streaming services, how Canadian vaccination policies could affect the Blue Jays, the advent of WARdle, weather splits at FanGraphs, the podcast’s season preview plans, why the international draft is subject to collective bargaining, and more, followed by a conversation (50:05) with The Athletic staff writer Maria Torres about the ongoing discussions between MLB and the MLBPA about the international draft, the many problems with the international free agent market, MLB’s culpability, alternatives to a draft, and more.
Audio intro: Crosby, Stills & Nash, “After the Storm”
Audio interstitial: Steppenwolf, “Draft Resister”
Audio outro: Spector, “Local International”
Link to Eric on VerHagen
Link to study on late-offseason signings
Link to Evan Drellich on the CBA
Link to Joe Sheehan on the CBA
Link to article on broadcast deals
Link to news about Peacock deal
Link to thread about the Blue Jays
Link to WARdle
Link to FanGraphs weather splits
Link to Ben Clemens on qualifying offers
Link to Freedman thread
Link to news on draft negotiations
Link to Maria’s feature story
Link to Lindor statement
Link to story on Puerto Rico and the draft
Link to second story on P.R. and the draft
Link to third story on P.R. and the draft
Link to ESPN on the international draft
Link to Durbin tweet
Link to Sanders statement
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| 0:00.0 | These poetry's traditional. |
| 0:03.6 | Let the Pand down. |
| 0:09.7 | Simple shape in this process are funny. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 1822 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vangraphs presented |
| 0:39.9 | by our Patreon supporters, Ian Benlundberg of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Vangraphs. |
| 0:45.5 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:46.5 | Hello. |
| 0:47.5 | Well, who had droover hagan in the pool of potential first free agents to sign Big League |
| 0:53.4 | deals post-locout? |
| 0:54.4 | I missed that one. |
| 0:55.4 | He was not my first guess, actually. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, gosh. |
| 0:58.6 | Two years, $5.5 million. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, to the Cardinals. |
| 1:03.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.1 | It's fun just to have contract terms to talk about again. |
| 1:07.8 | Not my way of contracts, but yeah, not the name I would have expected. |
| 1:12.9 | Former Tiger and most recently, former Nippon-Ham fighter, droover hagan, but maybe that'll |
| 1:19.6 | break the seal and the floodgates will open. |
| 1:21.9 | But honestly, I'm sort of surprised and impressed at the league's restraint, players |
| 1:28.5 | restate as we speak here on Friday afternoon, it's been 17 hours or so since the lockout |
| 1:37.9 | was lifted and we've got droover hagan that kind of was thinking maybe there would be |
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