Effectively Wild Episode 2104: International Affairs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

With this year’s MLB free agent market enlivened by international players, Ben Lindbergh talks to three guests about three baseball-rich countries. First, Jeeho Yoo of the Yonhap News Agency joins to discuss the response in South Korea to Jung Hoo Lee 이정후’s signing, Shin-Soo Choo 추신수’s forthcoming retirement, the legendary career of Choi Dong-won, and […]

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0:00.0	A Baseball podcast, Podcast, Analytics and Stags,
0:07.0	with Ben and Meg from Finggrass,
0:11.0	Effectively wild.
0:17.0	Effectively wild.
0:19.0	Effectively wild.
0:20.0	Effectively wild.
0:22.0	Effectively one.
0:23.0	Wight.
0:25.0	Hello and
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2104 of Effectively Wild and Baseball Podcast from
0:35.0	fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the
0:38.8	Ringer. Not joined this time by Meg Rally of fangrass. As mentioned on our last episode, Meg is in the mountains with some spotty internet.
0:45.6	So I'm on my own today, but I won't be on my own for long because I've got three great guests lined up.
0:50.6	Now when Meg's away, and I'm planning a solo show, I think, what am I curious
0:54.5	about and who could join me to Slake that curiosity? And right now I'm curious about
0:59.2	international players and international baseball markets. So that will be our theme for today.
1:04.0	Because as Megg and I have discussed,
1:05.0	this year's free agent market would be pretty unexciting
1:08.0	if not for players who have joined or are joining
1:11.0	MLB from other international major leagues,
1:13.6	Jungu Lee, Shohayotani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto,
1:16.6	the Padres just signed Yuki Matsui,
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