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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 403: 2014 Season Preview Series: Texas Rangers

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam preview the Rangers’ season with Lana Berry, and Nick talks to Fort Worth Star-Telegram Rangers beat writer Jeff Wilson (at 26:14).

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They've got a power and a force that you've never seen before

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They've got the ability to move and to even up the score

0:20.0

No one can ever take them down

0:26.0

The power lies on this eye

0:36.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 403 of Effectively Wild

0:40.0

The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus

0:43.0

brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com

0:48.0

I'm Sam Miller, I'm here with Ben Lindbergh

0:50.0

We continue to do our tour of the Major League Baseball teams

0:54.0

Today we're talking about the Rangers in about 20 minutes

0:58.0

Nick will be talking to Jeff Wilson who covers the Rangers for the Fort Worth star telegram

1:03.0

But we are honored to be talking to Lana Berry

1:07.0

who is well known throughout Twitter for being on Twitter

1:12.0

And for what you were like one of the 100 must follow Twitter accounts

1:18.0

According to Sports Illustrated, is that correct?

1:20.0

That is correct

1:22.0

You, it was you and 99 athletes who I would never follow in a million years if I'm correct

1:29.0

That's pretty accurate

1:31.0

So quite an honor and we're glad to have you here

1:35.0

You wrote the wonderful essay about the Rangers for the Baseball Prospectus annual

1:40.0

And I wanted to ask you something

1:43.0

It seems like every team has some controversy that seems kind of insane and silly

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