Effectively Wild Episode 2068: More Like Mild Card
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about their takeaways from sweeps week in the wild card round (how sweep it is!) and pick the division series they’re most excited about, then examine Mariners POBO Jerry Dipoto’s comments about aspiring to win 54 percent of games over a decade (46:04) and provide updates on the results of two Effectively Wild drafts (1:23:37).
Audio intro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Kram on Atlanta’s offense
Link to Clemens on clean innings
Link to Tango on lineups vs. Montgomery
Link to Canha HR quote
Link to ESPN comments about Rays
Link to Clemens on Schneider
Link to Dipoto clip
Link to Dipoto follow-up
Link to .540 spreadsheet
Link to Drellich on Dipoto
Link to Drellich on candid quotes
Link to Logan Davis on Twitter
Link to EW competitions/drafts
Link to MLBTR on Eppler
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2068 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought |
| 0:13.4 | to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Egg Rally of Fan-Graphs and I am joined as I often am by Ben Lindbergh of The Ring |
| 0:19.8 | or Ben. |
| 0:21.2 | How are you? |
| 0:22.2 | How did the wild card treat you? |
| 0:23.5 | It was a tame card. |
| 0:25.4 | Really? |
| 0:26.4 | It was not very wild at all. |
| 0:28.6 | We're recording on Thursday. |
| 0:30.0 | I expected that we would probably be navigating some games still, but no, a whole day or two |
| 0:36.3 | whole days without baseball did not expect that. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm grateful for the way that the schedule is laid out this year. |
| 0:42.8 | It feels like the off days are a little friendlier to people getting their breaks when they |
| 0:47.9 | need them. |
| 0:48.9 | Even though it was a tame card in terms of sweeps, there were still some highlight moments, |
| 0:54.0 | but yeah, we didn't even have to fuss with our recording time. |
| 0:57.4 | What about the default then? |
| 0:59.1 | How's that? |
| 1:00.1 | I know. |
| 1:01.1 | That's always a challenge in the postseason because how much do you talk about games that |
| 1:04.8 | already happened? |
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