Effectively Wild Episode 2126: Season Preview Series: Cardinals and Guardians
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Rob Manfred’s announcement that he’ll step down as commissioner after his current term. Then they preview the 2024 St. Louis Cardinals (26:01) with The Athletic’s Katie Woo and the 2024 Cleveland Guardians (1:09:24) with MLB.com’s Mandy Bell, plus a postscript (1:44:43).
Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Drellich on Manfred 1
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Link to Drellich on Manfred 3
Link to Cardinals offseason tracker
Link to Cardinals depth chart
Link to Mozeliak on Ks
Link to Katie’s Athletic archive
Link to Guardians offseason tracker
Link to Guardians depth chart
Link to eclipse opener news
Link to Mandy on the eclipse
Link to Ben on the 2017 eclipse
Link to Langs on Vogt
Link to payrolls page
Link to Mandy’s MLB.com archive
Link to article on Cavnar
Link to Ben on ex-player GMs
Link to Toronto Fogo page
Link to Toronto Fogo article
Link to article on Escobar
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| 0:00.0 | A street that's not in entry, they won't be allowed to be. |
| 0:04.7 | That's why I love is all. |
| 0:07.7 | Special guest in three series, |
| 0:09.2 | switching in pure poetry. |
| 0:10.9 | That's why I love is called. |
| 0:15.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:20.0 | Effectively wild. Wild. |
| 0:24.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:26.0 | Baseball. |
| 0:28.0 | What asks. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2126 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball |
| 0:35.2 | podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm A ag rally fan graphs and I'm |
| 0:38.7 | joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer Ben, how are you? |
| 0:41.4 | I'm doing all right we We got a double barrel Midwest team preview for people today. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh baby. Is that controversial to call Cleveland Midwest? Is that divisive? I've seen some people maybe express some reservations about that. |
| 0:56.4 | Wait, they don't think that what wait what? I've seen some people draw distinctions |
| 1:01.7 | of some parts of Ohio or even Cleveland itself that maybe |
| 1:07.1 | Cleveland is more northeast as opposed to say Columbus let's say I mean we're |
| 1:12.3 | getting granular here but look I'm no authority |
| 1:16.3 | on what constitutes Midwest or not so if I offended anyone by either calling |
| 1:21.9 | Cleveland Midwest or calling into question that |
| 1:24.8 | Cleveland might be Midwest I apologize I have no opinion on this subject I'm just |
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