Effectively Wild Episode 607: The 2015 Minor League Free Agent Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Ben and Sam draft 20 minor league free agents who might see major league playing time in 2015.
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| 0:00.0 | Now you know, it seems impossible to see now, or to know. |
| 0:16.0 | Now you know, it seems impossible to see now, or to know. |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 607 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 0:38.0 | Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 1:08.0 | Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 1:38.0 | Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 2:08.0 | Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 2:38.0 | Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 3:08.0 | Hope will play in the majors in 2015 and the person who has the players who get the most major league play appearances or batters faced or play appearances plus batters faced when this contest. |
| 3:23.0 | Theoretically we should be marginally more accurate this time if only because last time we recorded in November just when these fray agents were announced. |
| 3:34.0 | And most of them had not signed. We didn't know where they would sign or even if they would sign. |
| 3:39.0 | Most of the guys that will be drafting today have homes already. |
| 3:44.0 | Yeah, I don't remember where I stopped Travis Blackley, Alex Liddy, Jonathan Alba, Alba Liddy Ho, |
| 3:51.0 | Cory Wade, Quinton Berry, Bill Bray, Mark Rogers, and... |
| 3:56.0 | Very two played appearances. |
| 3:58.0 | And mine were Sean Camp, Matt Laporta, Aaron Laffey, Ben Francisco, Ross Wolfe, |
| 4:04.0 | I picked the wrong one, Wolfe, Jonathan Sanchez, Ezekiel Carrera, Tommy Lane, Steve Tolison, |
| 4:12.0 | also two batters faced. The best part of the game is that I got... |
| 4:17.0 | My second best Steve Tolison was as good as your second best player. |
| 4:23.0 | That's right. |
| 4:24.0 | Because he faced as many batters as a pitcher as Quinton Berry got as a hit or a hit. |
| 4:29.0 | And Ed easily. |
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