Effectively Wild Episode 263: Jose Dariel Abreu and the Future of Cuban Baseball/The Unmade Wil Myers Trade
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss the next potential star from Cuba and the future of Cuban baseball, then revisit a trade for Wil Myers that didn’t happen.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 263 of Effectively Wild, a daily podcast from Baseball |
| 0:20.8 | Perspectus. |
| 0:22.1 | I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. |
| 0:26.4 | I am Russell Carlton, just reminded me that this is the anniversary of the beginning of |
| 0:31.8 | the 1994 strike, and I am glad that there is no strike, that there is going to be Baseball |
| 0:40.6 | today. |
| 0:42.0 | So we can be thankful for that. |
| 0:44.8 | It is the 19th anniversary, though. |
| 0:47.7 | Yeah, it is not a special anniversary. |
| 0:50.6 | Isn't it a... |
| 0:51.6 | No, okay. |
| 0:52.6 | It is just the 19th anniversary. |
| 0:55.6 | I wonder if the strike would have been a good hot take answer, probably not. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, I actually was just thinking that, but I think it was probably pretty hot as it |
| 1:09.0 | was. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | Okay, so you... |
| 1:12.6 | Maybe even, probably, I would say even hotter than than it is now, because now we have |
| 1:16.1 | so many ways to entertain ourselves. |
| 1:20.6 | So you are in a different place today than you were the last time we talked. |
| 1:28.9 | Tell the listeners where you are. |
| 1:31.0 | I am in a closet. |
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