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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 616: 2015 Season Preview Series: Arizona Diamondbacks

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ben and Sam preview the Diamondbacks’ season with David Raposa, and Sahadev talks to AZCentral Sports Diamondbacks beat writer Nick Piecoro (at 23:26).

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0:00.0

They call them the Diamond Dogs.

0:05.0

With your girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs.

0:14.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 16 of Effective Reliled from Daily Podcasts from Facebook

3:04.5

obtained from customs

3:34.5

is their one off the field and I kind of feel like maybe teams back in the old days had that like you'd

3:39.5

have the drinkin' team and you'd have the the southern boys team or whatever they would have but you

3:45.9

didn't really have you don't like there's nothing about the Indians as a group that is permanent or

3:52.8

intrinsic to their upbringing but for the diamondbacks their kind of was and I just wondered do you

3:58.7

think looking back at the towers and Gibson regime does there does their character as the

4:04.4

fighting diamondbacks or whatever they were did it help or hurt them do you think that it cost

4:09.6

them a win did it gain them a win did it cost or gain them a thousand wins do you think that there's

4:14.4

any like kind of judgment that we can make on that um I guess as far as them being a bunch of like

4:20.8

knuckleheads for lack of a better word I'm not sure if it really that didn't cost them so much

4:25.3

on the field as much as just towers not making smart moves to get like his like gas house gang

4:31.4

or whatever you want to call it like together because like I say my essay he seemed to want to say

4:36.4

especially with the Justin up to trade that he wanted a certain type of player in the organization

4:40.8

but looking at the moves that he made like you know just swapping guys in and not like

4:44.8

haphazardly it didn't seem like he knew what that player really was maybe it was a reliever

4:50.5

I really can't say for sure honestly what what were the various types of diamondback that he

4:56.1

seemed to pursue oh well it seemed that he was just pursuing either mid-rootate like I say my

5:02.5

essay I think it was like mid-rootation starters that he paid for more than that sort of role

5:08.0

closers that were good ones or had a lot of saves on their resume but possibly had like you know

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