Effectively Wild Episode 2145: Opening Daze and the 2024 Team Fun Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Opening Day naps, a Bryce Harper pandering update, Nelson Cruz’s Mariners retirement and the one-day-contract tradition, and Yusei Kikuchi’s latest intriguing revelation, then (21:16) share some highlights and lowlights of Opening Day action, report the results of listener voting on the preseason predictions game, analyze Will Smith’s extension, marvel at this season’s compressed projections, and (1:05:27) conduct the fourth annual Team Fun Draft, in which they draft all 30 teams in order of how fun they are to follow in 2024.
Audio intro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to FG staff predictions
Link to Ringer staff predictions
Link to Ramírez Opening Day quote
Link to Harper jacket
Link to Cruz Mariners tweet
Link to Levine on one-day contracts
Link to one-day-contracts thread
Link to Kikuchi on sleeping
Link to Kikuchi on reading
Link to Soto throw
Link to Ichiro throw
Link to Cespedes throw
Link to Mays catch
Link to Mariners salmon run
Link to salmon run video
Link to preseason predictions pod
Link to listener voting results
Link to MLBTR on Lewin Díaz
Link to MLBTR on Smith
Link to Jaffe on Smith
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to payroll disparities
Link to Paine on net WAR
Link to load management info
Link to Ben on Arraez
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
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| 0:00.0 | Let's effectively wild. It's effectively wild. It's effectively wild. It's effectively wild. It's effectively wild. |
| 0:10.0 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2145 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:20.0 | Fancrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:23.1 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Fancrofts. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello Meg. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello. |
| 0:29.0 | We've both been slightly sick, maybe more than slightly in certain cases, |
| 0:33.6 | and in different ways with different symptoms, |
| 0:36.5 | which we will spare our listeners. |
| 0:38.7 | Oh, we sure will. |
| 0:41.0 | But I bring that up only to say that it has been nice to have baseball for some solace. |
| 0:47.0 | I saw your tweet about taking a baseball nap as you work on blessing. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Which is wonderful. And some people might say as you're work on blessing. Oh yeah. |
| 0:52.6 | Which is wonderful. |
| 0:53.8 | And some people might say you're taking a baseball nap |
| 0:56.8 | already on day one, on opening day you're taking a baseball nap. |
| 1:00.0 | And if anyone is saying that, I don't know that anyone was but if they did I would |
| 1:05.2 | defend you and I would say that is exactly how you should celebrate opening day |
| 1:10.3 | that is maybe the best thing about baseball that it is perfect to nap to. |
| 1:15.8 | Maybe not the best thing, but it's certainly one of the selling points. |
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