Effectively Wild Episode 587: Valuing Draft Picks Inappropriately, the Marlins’ Sincerity, and Boston’s Low-Strike Strategy
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2014
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about changes in World Series odds, then discuss how teams value draft picks inappropriately, whether the Marlins are sincere, and Boston’s low-strike strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's not see right now, everybody knows how I feel. |
| 0:07.0 | Let's not see right now, everybody knows how I feel. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's not see right now. |
| 0:18.0 | Good morning and welcome to a big number of effectively wild |
| 0:23.0 | but daily podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | What number is it? |
| 0:25.0 | 587. |
| 0:26.0 | 587. |
| 0:27.0 | Affectively wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 0:29.0 | perspective. |
| 0:30.0 | I brought to you by the play index. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Sam Miller, the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi Ben. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:40.0 | How are you? |
| 0:41.0 | Okay. |
| 0:42.0 | I wanted to quickly go over our odd seasons, our odd season. |
| 0:48.0 | Our off season odds challenge. |
| 0:51.0 | Teams that we were going to predict would see their odds move the most |
| 0:55.0 | from the start of the off season to the end. |
| 0:57.0 | If a bad feeling about this. |
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