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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 396: Your Emails, Answered

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about scouting based on one swing, how much GMs know, paying young players, psyching out opponents, and more.

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0:00.0

Just as a question that will make it go away

0:07.0

You still can't change it with the way you are in your hand

0:14.0

It comes to me that everything will surely fail

0:21.0

There is something in your picture of the moon

0:29.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 396 of Effect of the Wild

0:35.0

The Daily Podcast for Baseball Perspectives

0:38.0

Presented by the baseballreference.com Playindex

0:41.0

I am Ben Lindberg joined by Sam Miller

0:44.0

Can I make an announcement?

0:46.0

Yes

0:47.0

So I've decided that I would like to do a Effectively Wild Fantasy League

0:53.0

But because it's an Effectively Wild Fantasy League

0:57.0

I would only do it if it were Effectively Wild

1:00.0

And so the League will be relievers only

1:04.0

It's an all relievers league and we're going to go I would guess

1:09.0

250 or 300 relievers deep in the draft

1:14.0

And all comers are welcome

1:17.0

Because the way that we're going to do it there's no real max on how many people can do this

1:22.0

But basically you'll have to draft 25 or 30 relievers out of a pool of about 300

1:29.0

It'll be slow drafts from starting next week until the beginning of the season

1:34.0

So there will not be a great urgency you will not have to set aside an evening

1:39.0

And it will be set it and forget it

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