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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 641: 2015 Season Preview Series: Seattle Mariners

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam preview the Mariners’ season with Patrick Dubuque, and Sahadev talks to Tacoma Rainiers broadcaster Mike Curto (at 26:49).

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So, I'm starting to shine through

0:05.0

You're the world I work with you

0:11.0

It's strange what sun can do

0:15.0

On one more rainy day

0:20.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 641 of Effectively Wild

0:25.0

The Daily Podcast from Baseball for Spectus

0:27.0

Presented by the play index at baseballreference.com

0:30.0

I'm Ben Lemberga, Grantland, joined by Sam Miller, up to baseball

0:34.2

Respectus. Hello. Hello. How are you?

0:37.0

All right, we are continuing and approaching the end of our podcast

0:42.0

Team Preview series. Today's team is the Seattle Mariners

0:46.0

In the second segment, the hot of Sharma will be speaking to Mike Kurdo,

0:50.0

who's the voice of the Tacoma Reneers, the Mariners AAA affiliate,

0:55.0

and a former baseball respectus annual essay author.

0:58.0

But today we have the reigning defending Seattle Mariners

1:03.0

baseball respectus annual essay author Patrick Dubuque.

1:07.0

He is an editor at Lookout Landing. He writes for The Hardball Times.

1:12.0

Mostly he is trying to fill the void in his heart where not graphs once was.

1:16.0

Hello, Patrick. So I wrote this thing at the end of the regular season

1:22.0

where I tried to statistically figure out what the most exciting season was,

1:28.0

the most exciting regular season. And I used this method, which is suggested by

1:34.0

Dan Brooks, actually, of looking at the total cumulative change in playoff odds

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