Effectively Wild Episode 2249: Our Bold Preseason Predictions, Revisited
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, Ben Clemens, Michael Baumann, and podcast scorekeeper Chris Hanel convene to play “College Baseball Player or Fictional Republican Politician?” and reveal the victors of the 2024 minor league free agent draft and bold preseason predictions game, including recaps of each prediction.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Tony, the Stapglass, the beef boy is so shweets. |
| 0:07.0 | The avi pettance is super, a fete. |
| 0:10.0 | I think that it's effectively cool. |
| 0:14.0 | I think that it's effectively wild, |
| 0:19.0 | effectively, |
| 0:20.0 | effectively, savage. Wild, Effectivement Sauvage. |
| 0:21.6 | Effectively Salvage. |
| 0:25.6 | Effectively Sauvage. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2249 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fancrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:43.4 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. |
| 0:47.2 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:48.4 | Hello. |
| 0:49.1 | Boy, do we have a full compliment of podcast guests on this episode, full house, five people in total, because it's time for a tradition, a tradition that started |
| 1:01.0 | last year, but has already become important to all of us, which is the episode when we recap |
| 1:06.8 | our preseason picks and find out which ones we got right and wrong. And by picks, I mean |
| 1:13.0 | predictions, the bold ones that we did back before opening day. And so we are joined by the same |
| 1:19.7 | people who made those predictions with us and then also scored and graded those predictions, |
| 1:25.0 | namely other Ben, Ben Clemens of fan graphs. |
| 1:27.8 | Hello, Ben. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello. |
| 1:29.8 | Michael Bowman, also of fan graphs. |
| 1:31.3 | Privyz. |
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