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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2017: The 26-Under-25 Draft

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Mets, the Padres, and the AL Central, Jacob deGrom’s UCL, Mike Trout’s slow (by his standards) start, and a Phillies pitch-clock controversy, then (23:32), in honor of Elly De La Cruz, draft the 26 best MLB players under 25 years old (see link below to vote!), followed by a Past Blast from 2017 (1:13:54), closing banter about the Blue Jays and Red Sox DFAing Anthony Bass and Matt Dermody, respectively (1:17:22), and updates.

Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Rosenthal on the Mets
Link to story on Phillies pitch clock
Link to Sam Blum on Trout
Link to Jay on Trout
Link to Ben on deGrom
Link to Baby Gronk explainer
Link to giant baby meme
Link to Elly’s prediction
Link to Statcast on Elly
Link to EW drafts/competitions
Link to listener voting form
Link to MLBTR on Bass
Link to Toronto Star on Bass
Link to The Athletic on Dermody
Link to Bloom on Dermody
Link to Dermody’s Twitter likes
Link to 2017 Past Blast source
Link to other Past Blast source
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Blaseball EW episode
Link to article on end of Blaseball
Link to Greinke EW episode
Link to new Greinke stories
Link to Diekman EW episode
Link to BP on Diekman
Link to Judge fence article
Link to Yankees super-error
Link to Ohtani vs. RHP sweepers
Link to Ohtani vs. LHP sweepers

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0:00.0

Le tournoi, le staglaste, le vieux pour les sociétés, les avis, paye dans, les super oufettes,

0:10.5

je pense qu'on sait affectif les coules, je pense qu'on sait affectif les wilds, affectif

0:19.7

les sociétés, affectif les sociétés, affectif les sociétés,

0:33.2

Hello and welcome to episode 2017 of Effectively Wild, a fangraft space ball podcast brought to you by

0:39.0

our Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Rally, a fangrafts and I am joined by a still beleaguered but present

0:44.2

Benlin Berg of the Ring are Ben, how are you? I am somewhere between the Metz and the AL Central,

0:52.0

I guess that's about as good as I am right now. So you're dying? I mean I guess we all are

0:58.1

aren't we? I'm in better shape than Jacob de Grames UCL but I am, yeah, roughly AL Central

1:04.8

level as we speak on Friday, every AL Central team is currently below 500. Yeah it seems bad.

1:10.7

So I'm either that or the Metz reeling after losing a bunch of games to the Braves and some other

1:17.2

teams too. I will admit that I didn't get to watch a lot of baseball as a stray because I was busy

1:22.5

working, working, working, you know, and also yelling at the blue jays on Twitter and so I didn't

1:28.8

like I didn't get to watch the Metz collapse but the way that people who did watch the Metz

1:36.1

collapse who prefer the Metz to win versus lose, we're talking about the Metz collapse in their

1:43.3

game against Stillanna. It took me back Ben, you know, I felt like I was in an earlier time.

1:50.2

I won't say a simpler time but a will-pony time. That's how it that's how it felt,

1:55.6

felt like we were doing an oldie but a not goodie at least from the Metz perspective,

2:02.6

the Braves fans I follow were thrilled. They're having a great time. Yeah a lot of what will

2:07.3

co-endue columns out there with helps roll, will there be big changes? It is extraordinary that

2:13.8

it is June 9th and the Metz are 30 and 33 and the Padres are 29 and 33. Yeah.

2:20.2

Two teams that were much talked about over the winter spent a ton that were angering other owners

2:28.3

who didn't want to spend money who were being forced to spend money or fall behind because

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