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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2100: Here’s How Our Bold Predictions Did

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens, and Chris Hanel play a quick round of “College Baseball Player or U.S. Space Shuttle Astronaut,” banter about the Braves’ series of recent, red-paper-clip-style trades (5:21) and the Diamondbacks re-signing Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (14:13), and then revisit, dissect, and score their bold preseason predictions from […]

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0:00.0

Does baseball look the same to you as it does to me?

0:07.0

When we look at baseball, how much do we see? Well, the curve balls bend and the home runs fly.

0:16.0

The more to the game that meets the eye

0:20.0

To get the stats compiled and the stories filed fans on the internet might get

0:25.3

riled but we can break it down on effectively wild.

0:31.3

Hello and welcome to episode 2100 of Effectively Wild a Baseball

0:38.0

Podcast from fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Benlenburg of

0:42.2

the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fancras.

0:44.5

Hello, Meg.

0:45.8

Hello.

0:46.7

We have a full house today.

0:48.6

Also on the line.

0:50.0

We have Michael Baman of Fancras, who recently mailed me a Christmas card addressed to the Ottani family.

0:56.0

Thank you for the card.

0:58.0

So this is, I've been doing this because I can never remember if your wife took your last name or not.

1:04.0

So, okay.

1:06.0

So maybe next year I will address it to the actual residence of your house.

1:10.0

Well, it was delivered, so I guess the U.S US Postal Service considers me an honorary

1:14.1

Otani. I'll take it. They don't know Shohe Otani doesn't live in your apartment. No no one

1:18.4

knows where he lives well maybe Portia the show bay but also with us is fan graphs Ben Clemens, aka Other Ben, doesn't seem to matter what he do. He's always number two. He's just Other Ben. Anywhere else, he'd be at 10. Hi Ben.

1:31.0

Hey Ben, how's it going?

1:33.4

You're enough for me.

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