Effectively Wild Episode 2080: The Most Interesting Offseason Storylines
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about which MLB franchise will win its first championship next, the postseason “second-chance issue,” Clayton Kershaw’s shoulder surgery and other Dodgers decisions, a change in Astros primary catchers, the Braves re-signing Joe Jiménez, and Nelson Cruz’s career and retirement, then (1:05:20) discuss the stories they’re most interested in following this winter.
Audio intro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Chris Gilligan’s FG post
Link to preseason prediction scores
Link to Sheehan on second chances
Link to MLBTR on Kershaw
Link to MLBTR on Jiménez
Link to Jiménez press release
Link to MLBTR on Lynn
Link to MLBTR on Muncy
Link to Jay Jaffe on Muncy
Link to MLBTR on Diaz
Link to MLBTR on Cruz
Link to 2020 EW episode on Cruz
Link to Cruz retirement tour tweet
Link to WAR from age 28 on
Link to HoF WAR from age 28 on
Link to offseason schedule FG post
Link to MLBTR on Counsell
Link to Law’s top 50 FA list
Link to Sam on pitch-clock exceptions
Link to pitch-clock-exceptions rule
Link to postseason time of game
Link to article on streaming NPB
Link to article on Yamamoto
Link to info on the Curse of the Colonel
Link to EW on the Curse of the Colonel
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| 0:00.0 | Effect Wild is here for you about all the weird stuff that players do |
| 0:06.3 | authentically strange and objectively styled let's play ball |
| 0:10.9 | It's effectively wild |
| 0:12.4 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:15.0 | effectively wild. |
| 0:17.0 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:18.0 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2080 like the scouting scale of |
| 0:27.4 | effectively wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our |
| 0:31.9 | Patreon supporters I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by |
| 0:35.7 | Meg Rally of Van Graf's. Hello, where are you on the scouting scale today? |
| 0:40.1 | Oh gosh, I, I answer that question with any degree of confidence. I'm still quite tired. |
| 0:49.6 | Catsman, sometimes the cats they get yeah in the night but I'm well other than being |
| 0:56.4 | tired so I'm like well let's put me at like I'm like a 55 right now |
| 1:02.2 | let's put me at like I'm like a 55 right now. Yeah. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah. Okay not bad above average. |
| 1:06.0 | That's all we need here. |
| 1:08.4 | So I just went to fancrafts.com, a great website about baseball that I browse from time to time and I saw a headline |
| 1:16.7 | on a new post by one Chris Gilligan and it says who will be next to win their first, as in their first championship for the franchise. |
| 1:26.9 | Now that the Rangers have finally gotten on the board, and I thought, what a perfect banter |
| 1:32.1 | prompt for the beginning of this podcast. |
| 1:34.4 | I have not yet read the article because I don't want to spoil myself on what Chris concluded. |
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