Effectively Wild Episode 360: Scouting 2013 Hall of Fame Candidates
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2014
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss BP’s Hall of Fame ballot, then review early scouting reports on the players BP would have voted in.
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| 0:00.0 | What in the same hill are you doing, Walt? |
| 0:04.0 | But, Arakus, he's gone and drained his dinner and slept and now he's pouring it all over. |
| 0:10.0 | Scout? |
| 0:12.0 | What? |
| 0:13.0 | Come out here, I want to talk to you. |
| 0:16.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 360 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseballperspectus.com. |
| 0:25.0 | I am Benlund Berg, joined by Sam Miller. |
| 0:28.0 | It is Hall of Fame induction day. |
| 0:32.0 | We or I tried to think of a way that we might not talk about the Hall of Fame, but I couldn't do it. |
| 0:38.0 | So we're going to talk about the Hall of Fame. |
| 0:41.0 | The results will be announced today at 2pm, I think. |
| 0:48.0 | I will listen, I think I'll listen to the conference calls with the people who are just elected. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't know why, but maybe someone will say something interesting. |
| 0:58.0 | Like, I did steroids. |
| 1:00.0 | Chokes on you, too late. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm in. |
| 1:07.0 | But the baseballperspectus ballot is out this morning, Wednesday morning, if you're listening. |
| 1:18.0 | And I want to talk about that just for a minute. |
| 1:22.0 | We had 41 voters between writers and tech people and interns and basically everyone on the staff. |
| 1:31.0 | And the results were, well, we asked people to do two things. |
| 1:36.0 | We asked people to vote as if there were no 10 player limit and put down all the people that they would vote for if they could. |
| 1:44.0 | And then also to to rank the first 10 players that they would vote for under the BBWA rules. |
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