Effectively Wild Episode 507: Javier Baez’s Call-Up and What’s to Come for the Cubs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to ESPN Chicago contributor Sahadev Sharma about the arrival of Javier Baez and the future of the Cubs.

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0:00.0	The saints are coming through, and it's all over now, baby blue.
0:13.6	Good morning and welcome to episode 507 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts from
0:19.8	Baseball Perspectus, presented by the Play Index at BaseballReference.com.
0:25.4	I'm Sam Miller with Baseball Perspectus, and with me is Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, Ben
0:30.3	Hower You?
0:31.3	Okay.
0:32.3	Excellent.
0:33.3	And we have a third person with us today, Sahadev Sharma of ESPN, Chicago.
0:38.8	A contributor for ESPN, Chicago, is with us to talk about the biggest story of the day,
0:45.2	which is the promotion of Javier Baiez, but also a little bit to talk about what might
0:50.6	be one of the bigger stories in the next four or five years, which is the rise of the
0:54.7	Cubs, or at least the Cubs planned rise of the Cubs.
1:00.4	How are you doing?
1:01.8	I'm doing great.
1:03.2	Looking forward to finally watching Baiez and the Big Leagues.
1:06.4	So yeah, it seems like if you're writing about the Cubs for the last 18 months or so,
1:14.4	like 92% of the words that you write are like updates from the farm and or updates on
1:21.8	when the farm is going to arrive.
1:23.9	This has been probably fair to say the most interesting thing for Cubs fans to follow over
1:28.8	the last few years.
1:30.3	Oh yeah, I don't think there's much debate to that.
1:33.1	It's whenever I'm covering the Cubs, obviously, you kind of have to talk about what's going
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