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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

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

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 […]

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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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