Effectively Wild Episode 45: What the Wild Card Games Could Look Like/Miguel Cabrera and the Triple Crown

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether teams will get creative with their Wild Card rosters, then talk about Miguel Cabrera’s Triple Crown chances and why we should care if he wins.

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0:00.0	No Doe. No Show.
0:04.0	Good morning. Good evening. Welcome to episode I'm going to say 45.
0:10.0	That's right.
0:11.0	Effectively wild. The daily podcast from baseball perspective.
0:15.0	I am Sam Miller and with the vibrant voice that you just heard it's
0:21.0	Ben Lindbergh in New York, New York. Ben, how are you doing?
0:24.0	I just watched the season three or sorry series three premiere of Downton Abbey.
0:29.0	So I am. My mind is is 90 years ago and and across the pond, but I'm in fine spirits.
0:36.0	Did they go to America yet?
0:38.0	You want me to spoil things?
0:41.0	I suppose we shouldn't.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:45.0	Off the air. You can spoil Downton for me off the air.
0:49.0	Okay. At a respect to our Downton listeners.
0:54.0	Do you have a topic about baseball?
0:57.0	Yeah. I want to talk about the wild card playing game or playoff game or whatever we're calling it.
1:03.0	And I'll talk about Miguel Cabrera and the triple crown. So why don't you start?
1:07.0	Okay. So in a development that I wasn't really aware of or actively aware of when I was
1:17.0	reading about the new playoff format this year and has been pointed out by a few
1:22.0	writers in the last day or two, the wild card playoff game will have its own sort of
1:28.0	strange roster setting teams that are playing in that wild card game will be
1:34.0	able to set their 25 man roster for that game and that game only.
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