Effectively Wild Episode 776: One Man’s Winter Meetings Saga

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to Andre Archimbaud, whose experience at the 2002 Winter Meetings, just before Moneyball blew up, was chronicled in Josh Lewin’s book, Getting in the Game.

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0:00.0	The waves are along the road The air is growing thin
0:14.4	Too many friends who try Blown off this mountain with the wind
0:24.1	We're all the left I'm gonna be on the left
0:31.3	When the time is up I'm gonna be on my friend
0:36.4	Good morning and welcome to episode 776
0:39.4	Effectively wild and daily podcasts for baseball perspectives
0:42.7	brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com
0:46.0	I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh, 538
0:48.9	Hello Ben
0:50.8	And we are joined today by a guest Andrei Arshimbo
0:55.0	And the reason that I wanted to have him on and who he is
1:00.0	is I was recently reading an anticipation of the winter meetings in Nashville
1:04.8	The book that Josh Lewin wrote in 2004
1:08.7	About the 2002 winter meetings in Nashville
1:11.2	And Josh's book which was called Getting in the Game
1:14.3	Inside Baseball's winter meetings was primarily about the job seekers
1:19.2	About the meetings that while we're following all the rumors
1:22.6	The meetings are actually dominated by these
1:25.2	Scores of people well more than scores of people hundreds of people
1:29.2	Seeking jobs with hundreds of minor league teams
1:32.8	And also with major league teams and also with various
1:35.5	Ancillary companies around the industry
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