Effectively Wild Episode 1980: Season Preview Series: Rays and Tigers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about recent WBC highlights, whether the WBC should be held more often (7:44), extensions for Corbin Carroll and Keibert Ruiz (19:50), MLB preparing to take over streaming for some teams amid the Diamond Sports bankruptcy (21:22), Trevor Bauer departing for Japan (31:17), and an Effectively Wild theme song contest (35:43), then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Tampa Bay Rays (42:57) with Adam Berry of MLB.com, and the Detroit Tigers (1:15:04) with Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic, plus a Past Blast from 1980 (1:53:29) and trivia answers (1:57:34).
Audio intro: Jaquan Grant, “Baseball Rich”
Audio interstitial 1: David Lawrence, “I Wander On”
Audio interstitial 2: Camden, “You Little Tiger”
Audio outro: Gilles Cardoni, “Super 80”
Link to Puerto Rico “perfect game”
Link to Mitch Bratt story
Link to Meneses homers
Link to Zach Buchanan on Meneses
Link to Ohtani homer
Link to Ohtani strikeout
Link to story on Satoria
Link to Satoria interview
Link to Pool A tiebreak story
Link to “change my mind” meme
Link to Caribbean Series wiki
Link to Baseball World Cup wiki
Link to MLBTR on Carroll
Link to Buchanan on Carroll
Link to tweet about Carroll
Link to MLBTR on Ruiz
Link to story on Diamond and MLB
Link to MLBTR on Bauer
Link to Jim Allen on Bauer
Link to story about P-G strike
Link to union info about strike
Link to strike fund
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds
Link to FG payroll breakdown
Link to Rays offseason tracker
Link to Rays depth chart
Link to Emma B. on Brady Williams
Link to Adam’s spring preview
Link to Adam’s author archive
Link to Tigers offseason tracker
Link to Tigers depth chart
Link to Dan S. on breakout hitters
Link to Cody’s spring preview
Link to Cody on Comerica dimensions
Link to Cody on Maton
Link to Cody on injury prevention
Link to Cody on Turnbull
Link to Cody’s author archive
Link to Cody’s Tigers podcast
Link to 1980 article source
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to Damon on the Bananas
Link to MLBTR on Diamond
Link to EW episode on sharting
Link to Hernández tweet
Link to Shane McKeon’s Twitter
Link to Shane’s website
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| 0:00.0 | I like it. |
| 0:04.0 | I want to be a place for rich. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm money in a safe and making place for his. |
| 0:09.0 | It's flattened to this place and it really flops it. |
| 0:12.0 | It is out of arm. |
| 0:13.0 | It's really good. |
| 0:14.0 | It's so big. |
| 0:15.0 | I know that is out here. |
| 0:16.0 | It's going to be a place for rich. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.0 | I want to be a place for rich. |
| 0:25.0 | Really good. |
| 0:26.0 | It's so big. |
| 0:27.0 | I know that. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1980 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:33.0 | a baseball podcast from Vanguafs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:37.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Vanguafs. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello. |
| 0:42.0 | So we've got a preview pod for you all today. |
| 0:45.0 | We will be talking about the Tampa Bay Raisin that Detroit Tigers. |
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