Effectively Wild Episode 2257: You Better Fried Your Mind Instead
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the end of the Winter Meetings, then discuss the rest of what down in Dallas: the Max Fried signing and where the Yankees roster stands, the Garrett Crochet trade, referring to a single player as a “Red Sox,” the Andrés Giménez (and Spencer Horwitz) trades, the Rangers re-signing Nathan Eovaldi and trading for Jake Burger, the Nationals landing the no. 1 overall pick in the draft lottery, Washington’s pitching development philosophy, the saga of Braggo Roth, and more, plus a few postscript updates.
Audio intro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Dan S. on Fried
Link to Jaffe on Fried
Link to Clemens on Crochet
Link to Passan tweet
Link to Clemens on Giménez
Link to team DRS
Link to team FRV
Link to Longenhagen on Giménez
Link to Baumann on García
Link to Andrews on Eovaldi
Link to Baumann on Burger
Link to payrolls page
Link to Rule 5 reports
Link to Rizzo quote
Link to Nats spring sign
Link to Nats preview pod
Link to 2023 team Stuff+
Link to 2024 team Stuff+
Link to team fastball velo
Link to team pitching WAR
Link to Braggo bio
Link to Braggo wiki
Link to A’s and Fried
Link to Sheehan on Crochet
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| 0:00.0 | Number one, Fangrass baseball podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | This stat cast is that blasts. |
| 0:10.3 | T OPS Plus, when the stats need contrast, zips and steamer for the forecast. |
| 0:17.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2257 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:26.8 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello. |
| 0:32.6 | So you're still speaking to me from Dallas. |
| 0:35.1 | We're recording here on Thursday afternoon. |
| 0:40.4 | Yep. No, Thursday morning. That would be more accurate. |
| 0:55.9 | Well, they wouldn't have known. No, but the meetings technically have concluded. And shortly after we finish this podcast, you will be joining the industry exodus from Dallas as everyone flocks back to whence they came. And I guess we can say, based on what's happened so far, barring any |
| 1:01.8 | late breaking news, which I'm sure there will be as soon as we finish recording, because that's |
| 1:06.3 | the way that these things tend to go. Pretty eventful meetings. Can't say that we got cheated. Can't say that |
| 1:12.6 | these meetings that this week was a letdown. We cannot say that. It would be it would be inaccurate |
| 1:17.5 | to say that it was a letdown. There was, there's a lot, Ben. There were so many things. Many |
| 1:22.3 | things happened. So, you know, I don't know, man. It was busy. It was a busy time. |
| 1:27.8 | It was. |
| 1:28.6 | I hope you had some good meetings in addition to reacting to and editing everything as you were doing right up until the second we started podcasting today. |
| 1:37.3 | Hardly everything, you know, we would be remiss to not acknowledge the great efforts of Matt Martel. |
| 1:44.6 | I did not edit everything. |
| 1:46.2 | One could not edit the entire site alone. |
| 1:49.1 | That would be crazy. |
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