Effectively Wild Episode 611: 2015 Season Preview Series: Minnesota Twins
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam preview the Twins’ season with Steve Neuman, and Sahadev talks to Pioneer Press Twins beat writer Mike Berardino (at 26:30).
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| 0:00.0 | He died in an alley from a south side of downtown Minnesota's well |
| 0:05.0 | So make it Minnesota proud |
| 0:07.0 | So here let's make some noise |
| 0:09.0 | Come on away those homerangues |
| 0:11.0 | It's a problem |
| 0:12.0 | It's a problem |
| 0:14.0 | Who the hell are you? |
| 0:17.0 | Please don't call them 20s |
| 0:24.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 6-11 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:29.0 | We'd be very glad to have you here from Baseball Prospectus |
| 0:31.0 | Presented by the play index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:34.0 | I am Ben Lemberg, a grant land joint by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus |
| 0:39.0 | This is the second stop on our 30 team trip around the majors |
| 0:44.0 | If you didn't hear our show yesterday, you can go back and hear the whole spiel about how this works |
| 0:49.0 | But the basics that you need to know we are previewing each team leading up to the season |
| 0:54.0 | Going in reverse order of Pico to projected win totals |
| 0:58.0 | We started yesterday with the Phillies |
| 1:00.0 | And that takes us to today's team, the twins |
| 1:03.0 | Later in this episode, so out of Sharma, we'll be talking to Mike Barardino, the twins beatwriter for the Pioneer Press |
| 1:11.0 | But we have the pleasure of talking to the author of this year's twins chapter essay in the BP annual |
| 1:20.0 | He is a digital producer for American public media, works on the Infinite Guest Podcast Network |
| 1:26.0 | And if you're a twins fan, you know him from the internet from Twinkytown, from Randball stew on Twitter |
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