Effectively Wild Episode 2121: Season Preview Series: Marlins and Mets
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley introduce the 12th annual Effectively Wild season preview series, then banter about the Royals extending Bobby Witt Jr., the Dodgers reuniting with Clayton Kershaw (and Ryan Brasier), the Red Sox (sort of) reuniting with Theo Epstein, and the latest hitter who’s converting to pitching. Then they preview the 2024 Miami Marlins (33:33) with Fish on First’s Kevin Barral and the 2024 New York Mets (1:09:12) with The Athletic’s Tim Britton.
Audio intro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Indoor Recess, “On-Field Mics”
Link to preview series wiki
Link to FG depth charts standings
Link to Dan S. on Witt
Link to MLBTR on Witt
Link to Baumann on Peralta
Link to MLBTR on Kershaw
Link to FG on Brasier
Link to info on Brasier’s cutter
Link to MLBTR on Peters
Link to Ben on Taylor Swift
Link to Caribbean Series wiki
Link to Marlins offseason tracker
Link to Marlins depth chart
Link to team SP projections
Link to team RP projections
Link to Fish on First
Link to Fish on First podcast
Link to Kevin’s Fish on First archive
Link to Mets offseason tracker
Link to Mets depth chart
Link to Mauricio ACL news
Link to 2023 framing leaders
Link to “transitory” comment
Link to Mets fan survey
Link to Tim’s The Athletic archive
Link to MLBTR on Altuve
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| 0:00.0 | Three new episodes for us each week. |
| 0:07.0 | Effectively. |
| 0:10.0 | Why on my own? in wild |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2121 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from |
| 0:25.3 | fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters I am Ben Limpirk of the |
| 0:28.9 | Ringer joined by Magrally of fancrafts a low mag Hello. Well here we go again. We're doing it. It's team preview |
| 0:36.8 | pod season for the 12th year in a row. We are previewing all of the baseball teams. I mean you weren't there for all 12 of those |
| 0:45.6 | years but the podcast collectively this is our 12th annual effectively wild preview I am I'm excited. I am I am I am |
| 0:55.1 | I think this is going to be good this is always informative yeah a good way for us to |
| 1:00.8 | catch up on everything that's happened. |
| 1:03.4 | It feels almost premature because some of the biggest free agents |
| 1:06.8 | are still out there. |
| 1:08.3 | So we will probably have to interrupt our team preview series to bring you news of major |
| 1:14.1 | signings at some point over the next few weeks and hopefully they will be with |
| 1:18.9 | teams that we haven't previewed yet but we can always allow for the possibility that there will be some signings. |
| 1:24.6 | This is not new. We've had off seasons before. |
| 1:26.8 | We're previewing where even fewer free agents were signed. |
| 1:30.4 | So we've been through it all. people are excited I think that this is |
| 1:35.2 | happening again a lot of people find effectively wild through the team preview series |
| 1:39.0 | it's a different vibe from our regular off-season stuff. |
| 1:43.6 | Much more serious. |
| 1:44.8 | But it's a right of spring or not quite spring, but it tells us that spring is at least arriving, |
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