Effectively Wild Episode 2067: The Playoff Frankenstein Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Mariners, the Cubs, and other teams that just missed the playoffs, discuss the firings of Giants manager Gabe Kapler and Mets manager Buck Showalter (19:21), and then (32:51) bring on FanGraphs writers Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens to assemble an ultimate playoff team by drafting components of existing playoff teams: hitting, baserunning, defense, starting pitching, relief pitching, and managing.
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| 0:00.0 | If things fall with different, I'll differ what it be. |
| 0:12.8 | Players grow in third arms, and then feel better, and if they're fair game, |
| 0:19.8 | If the key case doesn't depends, and maybe if you lucky will, |
| 0:24.6 | call by the chance. You never know precisely where it's gonna go, by definition, effectively wild. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello, and welcome to episode 2067 of Effectively Wild, a Fangirlass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm Megrelia Fangirlass, and I'm joined as always for as I often am, by Ben Lumberger, the ringer Ben Harrio. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm doing okay. We have a playoff field. We do. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, I guess maybe I'll just lay it out for anyone who gets their baseball news exclusively from Effectively Wild, |
| 0:58.2 | which some people seem to, and they're just in suspense waiting for the podcast to come out so that they know who made the playoffs. |
| 1:04.6 | Well, here's who. The blue jays are gonna play the twins, and the rangers are gonna play the race, and the Orioles will face the winner of race rangers. |
| 1:15.4 | The Astros will face the winner of twins jays in the National League. |
| 1:20.1 | You've got Diamondbacks at Brewers. You've got Marlins at Philly's. |
| 1:24.7 | The Braves face the winners of Philly's Marlins, and the Dodgers face the winner of Brewers debacks. |
| 1:30.9 | Now, there are a couple of teams that I did not name there that were in the running right up until the end of the regular season. |
| 1:40.2 | And sadly, did not quite make it. |
| 1:43.0 | One of those teams is near and dear to you, or at least has been at many times. |
| 1:48.3 | I don't know if they are at this very moment, but they have certainly had an impact on your emotional state over the past days and weeks and months. |
| 1:59.2 | So I am sorry to say that the Mariners miss the playoffs. |
| 2:03.7 | How are you feeling? How are you dealing with this near miss? |
| 2:08.6 | Well, I'm disappointed, Ben. I remain disappointed. |
| 2:12.4 | It felt like it was kind of all there for them to have the potential to win the division, and then to not make it at all feels not awesome. |
| 2:23.5 | So there's that piece of it, but I had very low expectations for this team coming into the season, or rather, |
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