Effectively Wild Episode 648: The No-Tommy-John Draft

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ben, Sam, and guests Doug Thorburn and Jeff Zimmerman draft the pitchers they think will make the most starts and avoid Tommy John surgery in the next calendar year.

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0:00.0	And the number 4 I can do
0:04.0	I keep running the risk of losing you
0:09.0	But nothing more I can say
0:13.0	I'm still running the risk of you walking away
0:19.0	I'm running the risk of losing you
0:23.0	I'm walking this tight road
0:26.0	You're my only one
0:28.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 648 of Effectively Wild
0:32.0	The Daily Podcasts from baseball perspectives presented by the play index at baseballreference.com
0:38.0	I am Ben Lindbergh, of Grantland, joined as always by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives
0:43.0	Hello Sam
0:44.0	Can I banter real quick, real real quick?
0:46.0	You can
0:47.0	We were talking yesterday about the effects of shortening the season
0:51.0	And we couldn't figure out the TV thing
0:53.0	I believed that it would not cost much money
0:55.0	And yet I couldn't figure out the TV thing
0:58.0	And I think I figured out why it won't matter for TV
1:02.0	I don't think that baseball revenue has anything to do with ratings
1:06.0	It has to do with getting a certain number of diehard people to subscribe to a cable company
1:12.0	And the kind of irreplaceability of sports coverage in some people's lives
1:18.0	is what makes them pay for cable
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