Effectively Wild Episode 268: Clayton Kershaw and Cooperstown/Xander Bogaerts and Historic Years for Young Talent
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2013
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about the Saber Seminar, then discuss Clayton Kershaw’s odds of induction into the Hall and the best-ever years for young players.
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| 0:00.0 | Call a Famer Whitey Ford now on the field, pleading with the crowd for some kind of sanity. |
| 0:06.0 | Oh, and a barrage of pretzels now knocking whitey unconscious. |
| 0:11.0 | Wow, this is a... |
| 0:13.0 | This is a Black Day for Baseball. |
| 0:17.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 268. |
| 0:22.0 | Yes, 268. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm effectively wild for the Daily Podcast from baseballperspectives.com. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh, Ben. |
| 0:31.0 | You told me you were on a train from Boston. |
| 0:34.0 | A bus from Boston. |
| 0:36.0 | A bus from Boston. |
| 0:38.0 | Were you at the Boston Red Sox Baseball game? |
| 0:42.0 | I was not. I was at the Saber Seminar. |
| 0:46.0 | I see. |
| 0:47.0 | Yes. |
| 0:48.0 | How was that? Are you going to talk about that or do you want to banter about it? |
| 0:51.0 | It's not my topic. |
| 0:53.0 | Let's banter. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, it was fun. |
| 0:57.0 | It was a fun two days, full days of presentations and discussions with baseball people, mostly analytic stuff. |
| 1:06.0 | But not entirely. |
| 1:08.0 | There were a lot of Red Sox people there, player development people, amateur, scouting people, pros scouting people. |
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