Effectively Wild Episode 2098: A Team Deferred
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley call for a listener referendum on how to treat Shohei Ohtani’s unprecedented contract in the EW free-agent-contract over/under draft, then (20:43) banter about the Royals’ recent pitching additions and a wizardly Will Smith. After that (33:32), they talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about the players from Asian leagues who have enlivened the MLB free-agent market (including reports on new Giants addition Jung Hoo Lee 이정후, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga, Yuki Matsui, and Yariel Rodríguez), Eric’s process for evaluating international players, how perceptions of Asian leagues’ strengths and top talents have evolved, Erick Fedde and other players who’ve improved after going overseas, the best Asian players who are still years away from MLB, stylistic differences among leagues, and more.
Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to vote on the Ohtani contract
Link to latest over/under draft
Link to over/under draft wiki
Link to EW drafts/competitions sheet
Link to AP on Ohtani’s deal
Link to L.A. Times on Ohtani’s deal
Link to Sportico on Ohtani’s deal
Link to Clemens on Ohtani’s deal
Link to Zaidi on Ohtani
Link to FG post on Royals signings
Link to FG SP depth charts
Link to BaseRuns standings
Link to Gonny Jomes wiki
Link to article on Smith’s streak
Link to article on Hinske’s streak
Link to article on swimming witches
Link to wizard vs. warlock
Link to Lee cheer song
Link to EW guest appearance data
Link to DeltaGraphs
Link to Ben on DeltaGraphs
Link to Synergy Sports
Link to Eric on Lee
Link to SIS on Lee
Link to study on velocity splits
Link to SIS on Yamamoto
Link to info on Yamamoto meeting
Link to Eric on Fedde
Link to Bannister on Fedde
Link to Jyun Yue Tseng news
Link to Davenport on league strength
Link to Ben on NPB teams’ scouting
Link to Eric’s Board update
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| 0:00.0 | The Stapas has been |
| 0:05.0 | before his own shwets, |
| 0:07.0 | the |
| 0:05.0 | Pei d' Who's effectively cool? |
| 0:14.4 | Japan's cool say effectively wild. |
| 0:19.6 | Effective moral sovage. effective moral salvage. |
| 0:23.0 | effective moral salvage. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and solvage. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode |
| 0:35.0 | 28 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought you by our |
| 0:38.8 | Patreon supporters. I'm Megrelli fan graphs and I am joined by Ben |
| 0:41.8 | Lumburg of the ringer Ben how are you? |
| 0:44.2 | Well part of me is excited because we've got some fun stuff to talk about we've got some |
| 0:48.6 | interesting news the San Francisco Giants have finally landed a flashy free agent. |
| 0:54.4 | They have signed Junghoo Lee after being spurned by Shohei Ottani, |
| 0:58.9 | whom they claim to have offered roughly the same deal that the Dodgers did, but they've got Lee and |
| 1:04.8 | we're gonna talk about Lee. We're gonna bring on Eric Longenhagen who's gonna |
| 1:08.8 | give us the full scouting report on Lee but not only Lee, all of the fantastic Asian players who are really enlivening |
| 1:17.1 | this off-season's free agent market because as we talked about, not that great a market if you subtract the Asian players and not just Choh oatani but also the players who are coming over from |
| 1:27.3 | Asian leagues now Yamamoto we will talk about at length we'll talk about |
| 1:32.2 | imanaga we'll talk about some of the relievers and we'll talk about at length we'll talk about imminaga we'll talk about some of the |
| 1:33.6 | relievers and we'll talk about the challenges inherent in evaluating and |
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