Effectively Wild Episode 1951: The Pod Heard ’Round the World
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the Red Sox signing Rafael Devers to a lengthy extension, the state of the Sox, the next two free-agent classes, and Carlos Baerga the newsbreaker, then banter about bad news for Charles Leblanc, a Congressional baseball analogy, the Sears/Willis Tower, a painful slide by a broadcaster, the Dodgers’ offseason, and redefining the pitcher win, plus a Past Blast from 1951.
Audio intro: Greg Camp, “The Armageddon Slide”
Audio outro: Bobby Thomson, “Because of You”
Link to Baumann on Devers
Link to Dubuque on Devers
Link to Gilligan on Boston’s SP
Link to story about booing Henry
Link to team WAR projections
Link to Baerga’s Devers report
Link to Baerga on Judge/Correa
Link to info on free-agent classes
Link to MLBTR on Leblanc
Link to Marlins WAR leaders
Link to no-hitter analogy
Link to Curtis on baseball analogies
Link to Willis Tower wiki
Link to Manning on SNL
Link to tweet about Vassegh
Link to Vassegh YouTube video
Link to story on Vassegh
Link to grape stomp meme
Link to Ben Clemens on the Dodgers
Link to Russell on wins
Link to EW on baseball uniqueness
Link to 1951 story source
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
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| 0:00.0 | Sheldon, but the door's unlocked. If you rock as secret knock, switch it off. |
| 0:05.6 | You're radio, because you don't wanna know. |
| 0:09.0 | All the way of mine, sure, body and soul of fear. |
| 0:14.0 | Get your head to your place, call it anywhere but here. |
| 0:18.5 | All you gotta do is jump in the line. |
| 0:22.0 | And everybody do the armor, get this line. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1951 of Effectively Wild, a famed grass-based ball-punk has brought you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a famed grass- and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumbergo the Ringer. |
| 0:37.0 | How are you? |
| 0:38.0 | Pretty well, how are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Pretty well. |
| 0:41.0 | Good. Well, although Carl's Crayus status is still unresolved, we're... |
| 0:46.0 | Wistin' in the wind! |
| 0:48.0 | Very much so. I expect we'll have an update on that. One of these days, one of these weeks, but for now, nothing new to report. |
| 0:55.0 | Or nothing new that has been reported. |
| 0:57.0 | So we're otherwise well into the Wade Myleev, Zach Davies, Eric Cosmer, Evan Longoria, portion of the Ops season. |
| 1:06.0 | So I think it's safe to say that we're entering the pre-spring training doldrums, the low-ab of the baseball offseason news-wise, which is fine. |
| 1:16.0 | We've had it good thus far. |
| 1:17.0 | But there was one exception in that we got another $300 million dollar man. |
| 1:22.0 | I thought we might have been done with those in this winter. But no, Rafael Devers, welcome to the club. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, you know, his name is Rafael Devers, and he is the $300 man. |
| 1:32.0 | And I think importantly, for $300 million. |
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