Effectively Wild Episode 41: The Brewers Are Back in Contention, Technically/Max Scherzer and the Tigers’ 2009 Trade Revisited

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2012

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the state of the Brewers, which is a lot like the state of the Phillies, then talk about Max Scherzer’s long-awaited improvement and which team won the 2009 trade that brought him to Detroit.

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0:00.0	Good morning, good evening, welcome to episode 41 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast.
0:15.6	From baseball, perspective, I am Sam Miller.
0:19.0	It is my turn tonight to say introductory words and these are those words.
0:23.8	Ben Lindbergh is in New York, New York.
0:26.4	Ben, how are you doing tonight?
0:28.2	Good.
0:29.4	The Orioles 101 Run game tonight.
0:32.8	Seems like a pretty good idea for a piece.
0:35.8	Yeah, we should talk about how they're doing that.
0:38.9	We should write about that tomorrow.
0:40.1	Both of us should write separate pieces about the Orioles 1 Run win tonight.
0:45.9	It was quite a night.
0:46.7	The pendant races are like it's getting to that point where teams are gaining and losing
0:54.5	10 or 12 points in our playoff odds at a time.
0:59.4	The Giants, as of this moment, have a 7 game lead on the Dodgers so that race is basically
1:05.2	over.
1:06.2	It went from fun to over in the span of like four days or something.
1:09.3	Did we both pick the Giants when we did our start?
1:12.8	We did, although I think we then, we might have talked about it two days in a row though.
1:18.2	Because they risk the trade.
1:19.7	Yeah, and I think I hedged a bit, maybe, or perhaps I just distanced myself from my credibility,
1:27.2	but yes, definitely we both picked the Giants.
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