Effectively Wild Episode 1929: Double Your Drafting, Double Your Fun
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Scott Boras’s opinions about postseason pitch clocks and a neutral-site World Series, discuss Meg’s NL Rookie of the Year vote (14:16) and the rookie class, and then conduct two drafts: the eighth free-agent-contract over/under draft (35:37), and the fifth World Series odds movers draft (1:29:46), plus a Past Blast (1:48:40) from 1929 and a postscript.
Audio intro: Whitehorse, “Best Bet”
Audio outro: Aimee Mann, “Mr. Harris”
Link to Boras’s pitch-clock comment
Link to Boras on the World Series
Link to Ben on the rookie class
Link to Chris Gilligan on the rookies
Link to Tango on the WARs
Link to EW wiki on drafts
Link to competitions/drafts sheet
Link to Ben Clemens on RP signings
Link to MLBTR top 50 FA
Link to FanGraphs top FA
Link to Keith Law’s top FA
Link to qualifying offers
Link to Stathead on tall hitters
Link to WS odds spreadsheet
Link to Fanduel odds
Link to DraftKings odds
Link to 1929 story source
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to Craig Wright on few SB
Link to NL RotY results
Link to AL RotY results
Link to Dan S. on Strider
Link to Ben N-S on Rutschman
Link to Tango’s math
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When you be a best, fall in a little bit, fall in a while |
| 0:10.0 | I can take the year when it really gets |
| 0:18.0 | I will go around inside |
| 0:23.0 | When you be a best, fall in a little bit |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1929 |
| 0:31.0 | I'm effectively wild, a fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh at Fan Graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Rier |
| 0:39.0 | who was joined by other people sometimes |
| 0:42.0 | Yes, but always disappointed when I have to settle for someone else so welcome back |
| 0:47.0 | Thank you |
| 0:49.0 | A lot has happened since we last spoke in the world |
| 0:52.0 | Not as much in baseball, some things in baseball too |
| 0:55.0 | You missed Scott Boris pun week round one or you didn't miss it |
| 1:00.0 | I'm sure you are aware that it occurred that I know you are because I miss you |
| 1:04.0 | You made me aware |
| 1:05.0 | Joke that we should record an emergency episode |
| 1:07.0 | Instead, I pressed James Wagner into service and made him talk to me about some Boris puns |
| 1:13.0 | because he was on the scene |
| 1:15.0 | He was in the room where it happened |
| 1:17.0 | But one thing we did not talk about was an actual substantive comment Scott Boris made |
| 1:23.0 | Which I thought was interesting |
| 1:25.0 | So Scott Boris suggested that the pitch clock should not be used in the postseason |
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