Effectively Wild Episode 736: Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, and the Angels’ Attempt to Stay Alive
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to OC Register writer Pedro Moura about the odd career paths of Mike Trout and Albert Pujols, the Angels’ recent resurgence, and the team’s search for a new GM.
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| 0:00.0 | The sacred heart is bleeding, go tell the Holy Ghost |
| 0:07.0 | That the junk is cheating, to get the things he needs the most |
| 0:14.0 | Lady look, it's got me covered, keeping her watchful eyes over me |
| 0:22.0 | The lovers are discovered, the charges burst in green |
| 0:28.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 736 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:33.0 | The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus presented by the play index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:38.0 | I am Ben Menberg of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, hello, got a guest today, we are talking to him live from Angel Stadium |
| 0:49.0 | he is Pedro Morra of the OC register who covers the Angels and Dodgers |
| 0:54.0 | Hey Pedro, hey guys, I wanted to talk to you today |
| 0:57.0 | The Angels are my only shot at picking an AL playoff team this year |
| 1:02.0 | They are the only lifeline I have right now |
| 1:06.0 | And Sam and I have talked before about how we don't really root for teams |
| 1:11.0 | but sometimes you end up rooting for your own predictions |
| 1:15.0 | And I am far past the point of salvaging most of my preseason predictions |
| 1:20.0 | But the Angels are the one AL team that I still got a shot at getting |
| 1:24.0 | And they have won seven games in a row |
| 1:27.0 | We are talking to you before Wednesday's game |
| 1:30.0 | Which you couldn't really ask for a more favorable matchup |
| 1:34.0 | I don't know in the post-rich Hill world |
| 1:37.0 | Whether you can really ever count on anything |
| 1:39.0 | But they have a home game with Garrett Richards going against Barry Zito |
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