Effectively Wild Episode 1960: Seventy-Six Percent Led the Big Parade

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Scott Rolen’s election to the Hall of Fame, Billy Wagner, Andy Pettitte, and relievers vs. starters as Cooperstown candidates, the Adalberto Mondesi trade (and a wager about Mondesi and Shohei Ohtani), and (32:40) more ways in which baseball stands out from other sports. Then (45:00) they talk to […]

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0:00.0	I'm feeling better than we did last night.
0:17.6	Rolling on, rolling on.
0:20.8	It's hard sometimes.
0:23.1	Pretty much it's all right.
0:26.5	Hello and welcome to episode 1960 of Effectively Wild,
0:30.6	a baseball podcast from Bandgrass presented
0:32.9	by our Patreon supporters.
0:34.5	I am Finn Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by
0:36.6	Meg Rally of Bandgrass, hello, Meg.
0:39.1	Hello.
0:40.0	Well, we have a Hall of Famer, brand new one
0:43.1	or at least a Hall of Famer elect,
0:45.4	because the induction ceremony is not until next summer
0:49.1	or this following summer, if we wanna be pedantic
0:51.5	and wind don't we?
0:52.8	Congratulations to Scott Roland, all caveats aside.
0:57.8	He has been elected, he just squeaked over the line.
1:02.1	76.3% support, so he had a five vote margin
1:06.6	over the 75% election threshold.
1:09.6	He was the narrowest to get in since Iván Rodriguez
1:14.7	in 2017 and there were only a handful of guys going back
1:19.5	to the beginning of annual voting in 1966
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