Effectively Wild Episode 2236: The 2024 World Series Preview
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Meg Rowley and guest co-host Craig Goldstein, editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, discuss the passing of Fernando Valenzuela, and his importance to both the Dodgers and baseball more generally. Then they preview the 2024 World Series between the Dodgers and the Yankees. They detail the relative strengths and weaknesses of both teams, breaking down the lineups, rotations, and bullpens, and discuss the players who might make the difference, from big stars like Ohtani, Betts, Judge and Soto, to lesser-known arms like Luke Weaver and Brent Honeywell.
Audio intro: Benny and A Million Shetland Ponies, “Benny and A Million Shetland Ponies – Horny EW Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to FanGraphs’ postseason coverage
Link to Eric Nusbaum’s book “Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between”
Link to Andy McCullough on Fernando Valenzuela
Link to Craig on how the Dodgers should bullpen Game 1
Link to Craig’s podcast, Five and Dive
Link to Rob Arthur on Ohtani’s effect on attendance
Link to Ben Clemens’ World Series Preview
Link to Mike Petriello on the reliever familiarity effectLink to Michael Baumann on Giancarlo Stanton
Link to Davy Andrews on Aaron Judge
Link to Dan Szymborski on home field advantage in the playoffs
Link to Davy Andrews on the stars of the World Series
Link to Michael Baumann on postseason relievers
Link to Judge and Ohtani in the postseason
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, |
| 0:03.0 | how can you not be horny about baseball? |
| 0:07.0 | Every take hot and hotter, |
| 0:09.0 | entwining and a budding, |
| 0:11.0 | watch a finding mountain, watch a climbing mountain. |
| 0:13.0 | Nothing's about nothing. |
| 0:15.0 | Every stituate, with sweat, breaking balls back door me on effectively while |
| 0:20.0 | But can you not be horny? |
| 0:23.0 | When it comes to podcasts, how can you not be horny? |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2236 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball |
| 0:35.4 | podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of |
| 0:38.2 | fan graphs and I am joined today by editor-in-chief of baseball prospectus Craig Goldstein. |
| 0:43.6 | Craig, how are you? |
| 0:45.0 | What did I say? |
| 0:45.8 | I think how I'm going to put this. |
| 0:47.3 | Like, you know how they described Freddie Freeman as medicated |
| 0:50.1 | after his first playoff game? |
| 0:52.1 | That's where I am. That's good. Hopefully you have both of your feet. |
| 0:56.0 | My ankles are fine. I have a light cold. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, it's the time of year that comes for all of us. I'm waiting for my cold hit. I tend to get sick right after the playoffs end. It's like my body is like we have an understanding and then |
| 1:13.5 | hold out through through a certain period and then collapse. |
| 1:16.7 | And yeah and then it gets to the point of exhaustion and it collapses and I have to be like |
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