Effectively Wild Episode 286: Picking Comeback Players for 2014/Top Team Improvements of the Past Decade

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Ben and Sam pick potential comeback players for next season, then discuss Bill James’ list of the ways in which teams have improved over the last 10 years.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 286 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from
0:22.9	Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. Hello, Sam Miller. Hi, Ben.
0:29.5	Do you have anything to say to me? No. Okay. Did you see David Johnson's semi-defense
0:45.3	or retraction of his world series or bust statement? I saw that he said something. I didn't really
0:55.5	follow up on it. Yeah, so he said world series or bust, I guess it was like after the winter
1:02.4	meetings or at the winter meetings last year. What do you suppose that means? That doesn't seem to
1:07.5	mean anything. It does. Yeah, I don't. It was just like a slogan for the team or something. Isn't
1:14.4	that how every team? Yeah, I guess so. I don't know whether it was like an actual prediction
1:22.0	or not. There may have been, because he, I remember the year before I think he predicted playoffs or
1:27.2	something. I'm looking up the quote right now. Yeah, I mean, if he, if he, yeah, so he just said
1:36.4	world series or bust that's probably the slogan this year, but I'm comfortable with that, which
1:42.0	I guess makes sense, given how they played last year. But his, his defensive of that slogan now is
1:48.9	that he never would have said it if he had known how the nationals roster would, would come together,
1:57.1	which is an interesting defense. I also don't know what that means. Apparently he's upset about
2:05.1	how the left-handed reliever situation worked out. He really misses Tom Gorsillani. I guess. So he's
2:10.9	saying that he's saying he's saying he wouldn't have said that on April 1st. He said it before he
2:16.3	realized how how lousy the front-off is going to do. Basically, he's sort of, yeah, he sort of
2:23.2	implied that it seems like. That's, that seems, that seems, yeah, that seems quote worthy. Yeah,
2:30.0	worth a, worth a hard ball talk post. Yes. Yeah, I guess, I don't know if it wasn't really a
2:38.0	prediction, but I guess that's why you, you don't make predictions before you know what the
2:42.2	raster will look like. But the, it seems like, yeah, it seems like that he was just figuring out a way
2:47.6	to frame his passive-aggressive complaint about his boss, right? Yeah, that's all that way. Yeah,
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