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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 498: The Astros’ Draft Postmortem

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about banning the shift, then discuss the way the Astros’ draft deadline went down.

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0:00.0

Where there's loads of him in this old town, everybody puts me down.

0:08.0

I'm a face without a name.

0:12.0

Just walking in the ring on back to Houston.

0:20.0

Houston. Houston.

0:23.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 498 of Effectively Wilds,

0:28.0

this is the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus.

0:30.0

Brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com.

0:35.0

I'm Sam Miller and that's Ben Lindbergh, who writes for Grantland.

0:40.0

Ben, how are you?

0:41.0

Great. How are you?

0:43.0

Good. I'm sending you something that I just saw come over the wire two seconds before we started recording.

0:50.0

This is the Arizona Republic. I think.

0:54.0

Yeah, it's always hard to talk to.

0:56.0

It is an easy central dot com.

0:59.0

Which newspapers are always rebranding their websites for some reason.

1:02.0

When I was at Orange County Register for a while, our website was branded as myoc.

1:08.0

And for a while, it was branded as orangecounty.com.

1:12.0

So I'm always a little cautious.

1:15.0

But yes, this is the Arizona Republic.

1:17.0

Has a feature where writers, not writers, readers can submit headlines for the Diamondback scheme.

1:25.0

And I find this charming and wonderful.

1:30.0

And I just wanted you to see the headlines that are suggested.

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