Effectively Wild Episode 1964: Our Favorite Transactions
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about pre-Opening Day milestones and the upcoming EW season preview series, then (7:59) draft and discuss their favorite offseason transactions (and non-transactions), followed by a Past Blast from 1964 (1:16:19) and a Stat Blast addendum (1:21:18) about Pinky Higgins, Roxie Lawson, and hits-related records.
Audio intro: Marshall Crenshaw, “You’re My Favorite Waste of Time”
Audio outro: Ward White, “1964”
Link to Red Sox Truck Day
Link to Guardians Truck Day
Link to Phillies Truck Day
Link to season preview series wiki
Link to 2021 preview podcasts
Link to list of transactions
Link to Ben on K.C.’s outfield
Link to FG on the Varsho trade
Link to Ben Clemens on Varsho
Link to Ben L. on the Mets and Correa
Link to FG on the Twins and Correa
Link to FG SP depth charts
Link to Heyman’s Correa report
Link to FG on the Cruz signing
Link to FG on the McCutchen signing
Link to FG on the Hill signing
Link to FG on the Bogaerts signing
Link to FG on the Turner signing
Link to FG on the Devers extension
Link to story on NESN and boos
Link to FG on Murphy/Contreras
Link to ESPN on the Arenado decision
Link to FG on the Syndergaard signing
Link to The Athletic on Syndergaard
Link to FG on the Renfroe trade
Link to FG on the Anderson signing
Link to FG on the Estévez signing
Link to FG on the Contreras signing
Link to FG on the Green signing
Link to The Athletic team grades
Link to 1964 story source
Link to SABR on the ’64 Meetings
Link to commissioner’s powers paper
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to news on YouTube TV and MLBN
Link to story on Orioles lease
Link to Dan Moore EW episode
Link to Bradbury thread on Camden
Link to FG team projections
Link to The Core Stat Blast episode
Link to Higgins vs. Lawson H2H
Link to story on consecutive hits
Link to story on hits recordholders
Link to story on Higgins record
Link to other mention of Higgins record
Link to first story about spiking
Link to second story about spiking
Link to third story about spiking
Link to fourth story about spiking
Link to Craig Wright on spikings
Link to Higgins SABR bio
Link to Lawson SABR bio
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't care if it's with you as meaningless and ridiculous if it's wrong for right |
| 0:11.3 | I've got to give you my love tonight and tomorrow night go your mind |
| 0:23.1 | I'm the only one who's been waiting right by the way it's done time to mine |
| 0:36.7 | Aloha and welcome to episode 1964, effectively wild a baseball podcast for |
| 0:42.2 | Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lemberga, the ringer joined by Meg |
| 0:47.3 | Bradley of Vangrass, Aloha Meg. So before the start of the season opening day there is the start |
| 0:54.4 | of spring training games and before the start of spring training games there's pictures and |
| 0:59.1 | catchers reporting and before pictures and catchers reporting there's truck day so we have made it |
| 1:06.5 | to truck. Trunks! Yeah these are in descending order of how exciting they are and it's a steep |
| 1:14.2 | descent. You don't get amped for truck day is it? Some people do but is the descent as steep as |
| 1:21.2 | the grade that trucks have to avoid when they're going over mountains? At least that steep, |
| 1:26.7 | possibly steepers. So it's not that exciting but it is maybe the first milestone of hey things are |
| 1:34.2 | actually starting to get in gear here and also I think for baseball podcast hosts year round |
| 1:41.2 | baseball podcast hosts it's a nice sign that we are getting to the time of year when the material is |
| 1:47.6 | a little easier to come by not that we have issues finding things to talk about and sometimes |
| 1:53.2 | doing that in January or early February can be more stimulating because you have to think and |
| 1:59.3 | work a little harder but I feel like now we have kind of gotten over the hump when it comes to |
| 2:05.2 | creating our content in the depths of winter because guess what next week team preview start. |
| 2:11.6 | Yeah yeah they sure they sure do I know that you know it's a challenge when you're constructing |
| 2:20.4 | a podcast that you want to have broad appeal because you want to you just sometimes you want to |
| 2:25.2 | satisfy yourself you have a broad and diverse listenership for which we are quite grateful |
| 2:30.6 | and I know that there are like some some amongst them Ben who are like you know I've thought |
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