Effectively Wild Episode 1971: Season Preview Series: Brewers and Marlins
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the USA World Baseball Classic roster’s so-so starting pitching, the difficulty of recruiting top pitchers for the tournament, and Japan’s staff, Meg’s college baseball weekend and Juan Soto sighting, Orioles owner John Angelos’s latest comments, and MLB’s new Economic Reform Committee, plus a Stat Blast (31:56) about the greatest players who were never the best player on their team and an observation about the spread of projected win totals in the AL and NL. Then they continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Milwaukee Brewers (41:34) with Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Miami Marlins (1:21:34) with Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald, plus Past Blasts from 1971 (1:58:43) and a postscript (2:05:13).
Audio intro: Willie Nelson, “Second Fiddle”
Audio interstitial 1: Slade, “Don’t Blame Me”
Audio interstitial 2: Sci-Fi Soldier, “I Am in Miami”
Audio outro: Camera Obscura, “The False Contender”
Link to USA WBC roster
Link to DR roster breakdown
Link to Japan roster breakdown
Link to SP projections
Link to Rosenthal on recruiting pitching
Link to L.A. Times on WBC insurance
Link to Ben on WBC injuries
Link to Wash U on WBC injuries
Link to draft prospect rankings
Link to unrecognized Greinke
Link to Angelos comments
Link to Middleton comments
Link to Drellich on new committee
Link to Stat Blast spreadsheet
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to Brewers offseason tracker
Link to Brewers depth chart
Link to Todd’s spring training preview
Link to Todd’s author archive
Link to Burnes comments
Link to Jay Jaffe on Burns
Link to Burnes’s 2022 splits
Link to team payroll rankings
Link to Marlins offseason tracker
Link to Marlins depth chart
Link to Jordan on Pérez and Alcantara
Link to Jordan’s author archive
Link to “Marlins Will Soar”
Link to MLBTR on De La Cruz
Link to MLB.com on De La Cruz
Link to 1971 article source
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to sportslogos site
Link to bannermark article
Link to second bannermark article
Link to third bannermark article
Link to fourth bannermark article
Link to fifth bannermark article
Link to sixth bannermark article
Link to 1984 MVP trophy
Link to Phillies redesign logo
Link to ’76 centennial logo
Link to more on centennial logo
Link to info on Pepsi logo
Link to FG’s LF projections
Link to FG on Grossman signing
Link to FG’s 2B projections
Link to Randy Johnson comment
Link to Henry Q&A
Link to other Henry Q&A
Link to info on NESN edits
Link to Werner on booing
Link to Rosenthal on arbitration
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Could it be, baby, I'm just imagining things? |
| 0:10.0 | Do I really come second with you? |
| 0:20.0 | Only you know the answer. |
| 0:24.0 | Is it me, Joe or Jim? |
| 0:28.0 | Must I play second fiddle while you're dancing with them? |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1971 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh a fan-grafts and I joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer. |
| 0:47.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:48.0 | Not bad, how are you? |
| 0:49.0 | I'm not bad, you know? |
| 0:51.0 | You know it's kinda bad? |
| 0:52.0 | The US rotation for the WPC? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, how about that? |
| 0:57.0 | Have you looked at this starting staff lately? |
| 0:59.0 | It's not the greatest. |
| 1:01.0 | It is lost some notable arms of late. |
| 1:05.0 | It certainly has. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, the most recent being Quentin Kirschah, who was disappointed not to be on this team. |
| 1:12.0 | Nester Cortez also dropped out due to injury. |
| 1:15.0 | So now you have this six-man rotation on the American WBC team. |
| 1:20.0 | Adam Wainwright, Brady Singer, Lantzlin, Marl Kelly, Miles Michaelis, |
| 1:26.0 | and Kyle Freeland. |
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