Effectively Wild Episode 1965: Season Preview Series: Giants and Twins
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley introduce the 11th annual Effectively Wild season preview series, then kick things off by previewing the 2023 San Francisco Giants (13:03) with The Athletic’s Grant Brisbee and the 2023 Minnesota Twins (55:48) with The Athletic’s Aaron Gleeman, plus a Past Blast (1:33:43) from 1965.
Audio intro: The Bevis Frond, “And Away We Go”
Audio interstitial: Woods, “Twin Steps”
Audio outro: Justin Townes Earle, “Here We Go Again”
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Link to Grant’s author archive
Link to Twins offseason tracker
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Link to Aaron’s author archive
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| 0:00.0 | and... |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1965 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball |
| 0:35.4 | podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of |
| 0:38.6 | Fangrass and I am joined as always by Ben Limburg of the Ring or Ben. How are |
| 0:42.8 | you? Also I almost put the intro but guess what? I steered out of the skid. |
| 0:47.3 | Steered into the skid. Which way are you supposed to steer with skids? |
| 0:50.4 | You're asking me? The non-driver here? Into the skid though right? I know that. |
| 0:55.8 | I steered into it and then I didn't crash. There you go. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah. I never steered into or out of one but I know that you're supposed to steer |
| 1:03.3 | into it and yes you saved it. Anyway I'm here yes and it begins again. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. We're doing it. We're doing it. It's the team season preview series. |
| 1:13.5 | I never know whether to call it the team preview series or the season preview series. |
| 1:16.6 | It's both. So we are doing this. I guess it's the 10th anniversary of the |
| 1:21.6 | first time there wasn't effectively wild season preview series. We started |
| 1:25.3 | these in 2013. It's gone through all sorts of incarnations and formats since |
| 1:31.4 | then but we seem to have hit on one that people like a few years ago and after |
| 1:37.3 | an off year last year because of the lockout where we just did division |
| 1:41.0 | previews instead of team by team. We are going back to the full 30 team team by |
| 1:46.8 | team two teams per pod format that will take us up to the week of opening day. |
| 1:52.3 | So I'm excited to embark on this journey. I can't believe it is time again. |
| 1:57.4 | I feel all confused afraid. Perhaps a little |
| 2:02.7 | trepidacious but also been very excited. Yeah it can be a bit of a hassle from a |
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