Effectively Wild Episode 1827: 2022 Division Preview Series: AL Central
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the beginning of the 2022 division series preview series, rant about the reinstitution of the zombie runner, applaud the advent of the Ohtani Rule, follow up on a previous Stat Blast by recounting the most consecutive defensive plays a fielder has ever been involved in, and relate an unforgivable Scott Boras pun, then (35:59) bring on R.J. Anderson of CBS Sports to preview the 2022 season in the American League Central, team by team.
Audio intro: Yo La Tengo, “Automatic Doom”
Audio interstitial: Fruit Bats, “My Sweet Midwest”
Audio outro: Kevin Morby, “Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun”
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Link to study on zombie runner effects
Link to Stanky Draft episode
Link to longest fielder streaks
Link to first Boras quote
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Link to Correa signing story
Link to Guardians sale story
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| 0:00.0 | This time credit!! |
| 0:19.8 | Thank you very much!! |
| 0:29.8 | On episode 1827 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:32.5 | a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed son. |
| 0:36.6 | I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer. |
| 0:38.7 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:39.7 | Well, a bit of a mixed bag. |
| 0:41.5 | Some things I'm excited about, some things I'm upset about. |
| 0:45.0 | We will talk about both. |
| 0:46.7 | You could guess what one of those things probably is. |
| 0:50.1 | But the thing I'm excited about, or one of the things I'm excited about, |
| 0:53.0 | is that we are starting our season preview series today. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm excited that we have a season two preview at all. |
| 0:59.5 | And also that we are doing some previews. |
| 1:02.2 | So we're starting today as anyone who looked at the title of this episode |
| 1:05.9 | knows with the AL Central. |
| 1:07.9 | Why the AL Central? |
| 1:09.6 | We don't know. |
| 1:10.3 | We just kind of decided to start with the AL Central. |
| 1:13.4 | No one starts with the AL Central when they're previewing the season, right? |
| 1:17.2 | So we're zigging where they zag. |
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