Effectively Wild Episode 2240: We’ve Got Options
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about team/player option/opt-out decisions involving Gerrit Cole, Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell, and Eugenio Suárez, the Royals re-signing Michael Wacha, the players who received qualifying offers, the Minasian brothers as rival GMs (and potential PoBros), Carlos Santana’s historic Gold Glove, an international signing scandal (on multiple levels), evidence of racial bias in player development, a Japan Series upset, and more, plus a postscript.
Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to MLBTR on Cole 1
Link to MLBTR on Cole 2
Link to pitcher WAR since 2020
Link to P RA-9 WAR since 2020
Link to MLBTR on Snell
Link to Snell leaderboard
Link to MLBTR on Bellinger
Link to MLBTR on Suárez
Link to Suárez leaderboard
Link to Suárez Stathead search
Link to MLBTR on Wacha
Link to FG on Wacha
Link to qualifying offer list
Link to FG top 50 FA
Link to Rob Arthur article
Link to Rob on racial bias in 2020
Link to Rob on Black catchers in 2020
Link to Ringer scouting reports series
Link to MLBTR on Minasian
Link to LAT on the Minasians
Link to USA Today on the Minasians
Link to Langs Santana stat
Link to ESPN on signing scandal
Link to MLBTR on signing scandal
Link to Rob Arthur article
Link to Rob on racial bias in 2020
Link to Rob on Black catchers in 2020
Link to Ringer scouting reports series
Link to Climax Series wiki
Link to Climax Series bracket
Link to BayStars win 1
Link to BayStars win 2
Link to Jim Allen tweet
Link to Ben on the BayStars
Link to Hank Hill promo
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Effectively wild, effectively wild, effectively wild, effectively wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2240 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:29.2 | Patreon? |
| 0:30.1 | Patreon? |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.5 | This little regional accent of some sort. |
| 0:34.6 | I don't know what it was, though. |
| 0:36.1 | Not your actual accent, but |
| 0:37.5 | somebody's. Somebody's wasn't intentional. But anyway, our Patreon supporters, lovely folks that they are, |
| 0:44.0 | they bring you the show. I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs. You're Ben Lindberg of the ringer. I have |
| 0:49.6 | one functional brain cell. Let's do a show. How are you? Hey, I'm fasting for a colonoscopy currently, so at least you have that going for you. |
| 1:00.0 | You can eat whatever you want right now. Take advantage of that for those of us who can't. |
| 1:05.0 | I did a little grocery shopping today before we started recording, figured maybe not the worst idea to have some |
| 1:11.3 | provisions in case Arizona decides to get especially weird over the rest of the week |
| 1:17.2 | you know what my philosophy was on this my final grocery shop before election day |
| 1:22.9 | what's that if I saw a thing and I was like that looks like a little treat it went in |
| 1:27.0 | the cart. |
| 1:27.7 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 1:28.7 | Treat yourself. |
| 1:29.7 | Gotta have some little treats. |
| 1:30.7 | Could be a really long week. |
| 1:32.2 | Drop my ballot off. |
| 1:33.2 | Got a, I got an in-person sticker. |
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