Effectively Wild Episode 1918: Call Off the Search for the Secret Sauce

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley review the results of the 2022 minor league free agent draft, discuss Gold Glove finalists and a study about the lack of special ways to win in the postseason, recap the first few Championship Series games (and banter about José Alvarado and same-named athletes in multiple sports), and answer listener […]

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0:00.0	So we sat and talked, then we walked and talked about it was a truth.
0:08.0	What is your secret?
0:14.0	Driving on and on, eating favorite songs but your divisions roll.
0:20.0	What is your secret?
0:25.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1918 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:33.0	I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Fangrafts. Hello Meg.
0:38.0	Hello.
0:39.0	Before we get into today's playoff talk, I figured we should probably close the loop on something now that the regular season is over.
0:47.0	We can report the results of the minor league free agent draft.
0:52.0	Oh, well that's rude of you.
0:55.0	Yeah, I know. It's also kind of rude to myself.
0:58.0	Spoiler neither of us did very well.
1:01.0	Just to be accountable podcasters, I saw that the current keeper of the Effectively Wild wiki, Raymond Chen, who is great and diligent at doing that, although I know that he would like some assistance if anyone out there would like to help document Effectively Wild episodes with Raymond.
1:16.0	He would appreciate it, but he has updated the page for the minor league free agent draft with the 2022 results.
1:24.0	And he notes in parentheses that these totals are unofficial pending certification by John Chenier, official statistician statkeeper draft recorder of Effectively Wilds.
1:37.0	But I don't think that we're going to have to call in John to certify these things or go to a recount or anything because it's not close.
1:45.0	So, so this is episode 1798 is when we conducted this draft January 14th, 2022.
1:54.0	And for those of you who were not with us, we do this every year.
1:57.0	And the conceit here is that we draft minor league free agents. And we just draft guys.
2:02.0	We hope we'll get playing time in the coming regular season. And then we just count up the batter's faced or played appearances or both that they amass.
2:13.0	And just the most major league playing time wins. That's the whole game.
2:17.0	And we drafted 10 players each. And we welcomed in Ben Clemens of fan graphs in this draft to join us a rare non-host appearance by someone in the minor league free agent draft.
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