Effectively Wild Episode 2088: Let’s Talk Turkey
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Phillies re-signing Aaron Nola, the Braves signing Reynaldo López, trading for Aaron Bummer, and rearranging their roster, the Cardinals signing Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson, the Padres hiring Mike Shildt, Shohei Ohtani swearing teams to secrecy about his free-agent visits, and NHK’s Ohtani documentaries. Then (53:16) they talk to Vanessa Ivy Rose, host of six-part podcast Reclaimed: The Forgotten League and author of Hall of Fame DNA: The Legacy of Norman “Turkey” Stearnes, about the underappreciated greatness of her grandfather, Turkey Stearnes, telling the story of the Negro Leagues, and the past, present, and future of Black baseball.
Audio intro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to InstaGraphs post on Nola
Link to FG post on Nola
Link to FG post on López
Link to FG post on the Bummer trade
Link to FG post on the Wright trade
Link to team 40-man counts
Link to FG post on Lynn
Link to MLBTR on three Cards starters
Link to Mozeliak’s strikeouts quote
Link to defensive efficiency ranking
Link to MLBTR on Shildt’s firing
Link to MLBTR on Shildt’s hiring
Link to Passan’s Ohtani report
Link to Ohtani dog info
Link to dog breed details
Link to 2018 NHK doc
Link to 2021 NHK doc
Link to 2021 NHK doc (alt link)
Link to EW on youth baseball
Link to Teasley EW episode
Link to Nettie Stearnes clips
Link to The Forgotten League feed 1
Link to The Forgotten League feed 2
Link to Vanessa’s website
Link to Turkey history
Link to more Turkey history
Link to Vanessa on Turkey
Link to Turkey photo
Link to info on Turkey plaque
Link to FG Negro Leagues leaderboard
Link to Hall of Stats ranking
Link to B-Ref Negro Leagues stats
Link to Turkey at Seamheads
Link to Turkey at the NLBM
Link to HR/3B leaders
Link to The Athletic on stat integration
Link to MLB.com on stat integration
Link to MLB The Show mode
Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet
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| 0:00.0 | Animetics and humor, philosophical music, effectively one. Effect Wiles, |
| 0:15.0 | While, effectively Wiles. |
| 0:19.0 | Effectively Wiles. Effect. Wight. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello and welcome to episode |
| 0:27.0 | 2088 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:29.0 | a fangrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm make rally of |
| 0:32.6 | fan graphs and I'm joined by Ben Lemberger of the ringer. Ben how are you? |
| 0:35.8 | I'm all right how are you? |
| 0:37.8 | I'm well. Good. We're we're starting to get some movement here. |
| 0:43.0 | Hot stove-wise. |
| 0:44.0 | It's been a slow start. |
| 0:46.0 | The stove is on a low simmer at most, |
| 0:49.0 | but we're starting to get some signings here, |
| 0:51.0 | some dominoes starting to fall. and some of them are kind of big in |
| 0:54.8 | terms of the dollar amounts some of them also quite small but like the the headline |
| 0:59.8 | so far would be Aaronola's return to Philly and that was for more money than I thought |
| 1:04.7 | he'd get so good for you. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. Not you Ben, you didn't get any of his money. |
| 1:09.5 | I do not get a cut of that unfortunately but yeah 172 over seven years and that did I think |
| 1:17.5 | slightly exceed the MLB trade rumors estimate and the fan graphs estimates Ben Clemens and the crowd sourced one neither of us took |
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