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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 527: The Roster Expansion Email Show

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about expanded rosters, waiver claims, hidden perfect games, and more.

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I woke up somewhere in my middle

0:03.8

I turned to my laugh, oh man, now all I could see was a question posed as a riddle

0:11.0

I thought to myself, it's a reflection of me, but it's you

0:18.0

Oh yeah, you wanna know

0:22.0

Using this game still won me the bronze

0:26.0

I'll sell both our tickets, we'll sit on the lawns

0:31.0

Good morning, welcome to episode 5.7

0:35.0

A reflection of me wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspective

0:39.0

brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com

0:43.0

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lemberg of Grantland, then how are you?

0:48.0

Okay

0:50.0

Great. Guess who's back in the big leagues? Ryan Webb

0:58.0

It feels good. Does it? Yeah, as looking at Ryan Webb's minor league stats from his pretty short stint at AAA Norfolk

1:08.0

He got into 11 games and in three of them he finished the game without a save.

1:15.0

I would say that right now he is an imposition in Baltimore to finish fewer games than he's used to

1:24.0

Now that they have Joe Saunders

1:26.0

With expanded rosters the odds are just generally against it more but with Joe Saunders and TJ McFarland they basically have two

1:34.0

two redundant long men

1:36.0

And so my guess is that if there was like a blowout, if there was a you know somebody needed to do mop up work

1:43.0

Saunders might now be the mop up guy and

1:47.0

It seems like he's also less likely to get saves because they have like four or five lefties in that full pen right now

1:55.0

and so

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