Effectively Wild Episode 26: The Return of Brett Anderson, Oakland’s Playoff Rotation, and the Financial Future of Stephen Drew

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk about Brett Anderson’s Tuesday return from Tommy John surgery and its impact on Oakland’s potential playoff rotation, then discuss whether Stephen Drew would be wise to test the free-agent market this winter in light of the other shortstops available.

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0:00.0	Good evening, and good morning, and welcome to episode 26 of Effectively Wild, the daily
0:13.9	podcast from Baseball Prospectus.
0:16.7	I am the star of the show, Sam Miller, and with me as always is my sidekick, Ben Lindbergh.
0:25.1	Ben, are you as convivial as always today?
0:28.8	I haven't slept since episode 25, so I'm feeling it a little bit, but I'm here, and I'm enthusiastic.
0:37.3	Have you watched any baseball since episode 25?
0:41.6	Can we count highlights or actual in-game broadcasts?
0:46.8	I think highlights are probably as valuable as any of the nonsense that goes on in between pitches.
0:52.3	I've watched highlights.
0:53.4	I've watched ghosts, certainly.
0:58.0	What do you want to talk about tonight?
1:00.7	The comeback of Brett Anderson and the A's potential playoff rotation.
1:08.5	OK, and I will be talking about Stephen Drew, so I guess it's an all A's episode.
1:15.8	All right, go for it.
1:18.0	OK, so the comeback of Brett Anderson.
1:21.1	Brett Anderson came back, and he has not pitched since June 5th of last season.
1:28.0	He had Tommy John surgery.
1:30.3	He is now healed.
1:32.4	He made a few rehab starts, and he started tonight in the majors or last night if you're listening to this on Wednesday.
1:40.4	And he is still in progress as we record this, but he has gone through seven innings and has been excellent.
1:52.2	He looks like his night is officially over now, so we can say that his line
1:57.5	was seven innings.
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