Effectively Wild Episode 608: Unsolved Mysteries of the Mailbag

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss why the league is looking less clutch and answer listener emails about time-released rumors, a cryptic comment by Buck Showalter, Rick Porcello’s salary, and more.

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0:00.0	Isn't it time for us to fly into life's mystery?
0:07.0	Time to go somewhere we'd never seen.
0:14.0	Fly into life's mystery, fly into the mystery.
0:27.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 608 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from
0:32.4	baseball perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:37.8	I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective.
0:43.0	How are you?
0:47.0	That was smooth.
0:48.7	I am fine, thanks.
0:50.5	Good.
0:51.5	How are you?
0:52.5	Pretty good.
0:53.5	Okay.
0:54.5	Anything to talk about?
0:56.5	I don't think so.
1:00.3	I wanted to note that I did not mention Joe Savry in last year's Minor League draft,
1:07.9	but you did mention Aaron Bereda who at the time you had texted a scout trying to get information
1:17.6	for your Minor League draft.
1:19.6	Cheer to form, even then I was over preparing, not that it helped me at all.
1:24.7	And he recommended Aaron Bereda.
1:28.3	You couldn't take Bereda because he had already been signed by a team and we did this earlier
1:32.0	last season when signed players were off limits.
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