Effectively Wild Episode 2144: Season Preview Series: Dodgers and Rockies
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley remind people to vote in their preseason predictions game, discuss the completion of the season preview series, and then (10:15) analyze Shohei Ohtani’s remarks from Monday and preview the rest of the 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers season with The Athletic’s Fabian Ardaya, followed (1:15:31) by a 2024 Colorado Rockies preview with The Denver Gazette’s Luke Zahlmann, plus a postscript on the Diamondbacks signing Jordan Montgomery (1:55:50) and a recap of preview guests’ goals for each team this year (2:01:25).
Audio intro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Tom Rhoads, “What Did Shohei Ohtani Know?”
Audio interstitial 2: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”
LINK TO VOTE ON PREDICTIONS
Link to Capistrano swallows story
Link to swallows story 2
Link to swallows story 3
Link to Ohtani video
Link to Ohtani transcript
Link to other Ohtani translation
Link to Kim tweet
Link to Kojima video
Link to Ben on Ohtani
Link to Blum on Ippei’s bio
Link to NBA betting scandal
Link to Haberstroh on Porter
Link to Dodgers offseason tracker
Link to Dodgers depth chart
Link to Fabian on the Seoul series
Link to more on Seoul
Link to ESPN Friedman report
Link to Ben on the Dodgers
Link to Friedman on failure
Link to Dodgers TV deal
Link to Ben on the Dodgers
Link to Fabian’s Athletic archive
Link to Rockies offseason tracker
Link to Rockies depth chart
Link to SP projections
Link to RP projections
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to FG on Tovar’s extension
Link to Baumann on Straw
Link to Blum on Bryant
Link to Statcast defense projections
Link to Rockies pitching lab
Link to Rockies player projections
Link to Coors hangover effect
Link to Rockies R&D story
Link to MLB attendance ranks
Link to P GB% leaderboard
Link to P K% leaderboard
Link to Andrew’s Gazette archive
Link to MLBTR on Montgomery
Link to MLBTR on the QO
Link to Operation Market Garden
Link to over/under draft results
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
LINK TO VOTE ON PREDICTIONS
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| 0:00.0 | What's the greatest podcast of all if you love a game of baseball? |
| 0:07.0 | It's effectively wild |
| 0:12.0 | It's effectively wild |
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| 0:17.0 | When Nand back, |
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| 0:22.0 | I'm I'm |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2144 of effectively wild |
| 0:31.0 | the fan-grafts baseball |
| 0:32.0 | podcast brought to you by our |
| 0:33.6 | Patreon supporters I Meg Rowley of fan graphs I did not stumble in the intro even though it came |
| 0:38.2 | very close and you're Ben Wenberg of the ringer Ben how are you? |
| 0:43.0 | Final prediction pod, |
| 0:45.0 | final preview pod. |
| 0:46.0 | Prediction pod we did already. |
| 0:49.0 | We are both... |
| 0:50.0 | Go check out the prediction pod. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, we're both tired. You've been doing positional power rankings. We've been doing preview segments for the past several weeks. We did do a season predictions pod. I crossed my wires there because I did want to mention that and |
| 1:04.4 | remind people because there is a listener voting component. The polls are |
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