Effectively Wild Episode 823: 2016 Season Preview Series: Miami Marlins
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Ben and Sam preview the Marlins’ season with BP author Matt Trueblood, and Jeff talks to ESPN/Fox Sports Florida analyst Eduardo Perez (at 28:08).
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| 0:00.0 | Dormitalkasam terrified Dormitalkasam astatized Dormitalkasam for an easy fit |
| 0:20.7 | Dormitalkasam used to it. |
| 0:22.6 | and welcome to episode 823 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast on Baseball Perspectives, |
| 0:29.1 | presented by the Playindex at baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of 538, |
| 0:35.0 | joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectives, Los Amps. Yep. Today we're doing the next team in our |
| 0:41.0 | 30 team preview series, and it's the Miami Marlins. Later in this episode you will hear Jeff |
| 0:46.5 | Potternastro talking to Eduardo Perez, former Major League player and coach, including Marlin's |
| 0:51.8 | hitting coach, who is currently an analyst for ESPN and Fox Sports Florida. But we, as always, |
| 0:58.0 | are talking to the author of the annual essay for this team, which in the Marlin's case is BP |
| 1:03.4 | author Matt Treblood. Hey Matt, hey, how are you? I'm doing all right. All right. Sam, you have some |
| 1:09.0 | Marlins related banter. Yeah, the first time we had Matt on this podcast, it was to lead us in a |
| 1:16.2 | spirited game of Guest the Career Earnings. That's right. And so in honor of that, I want to ask you |
| 1:21.8 | guys to guess the career earnings of a particular Marlins associated player whose earnings I was |
| 1:28.7 | just looking at today for a reason. And I'm curious if you guys can guess it. So the Marlin is, |
| 1:35.0 | well, first guess the Marlin. You don't have to guess the Marlin. The Marlin is Brad Penny. |
| 1:42.0 | Brad Penny. An interesting career. And all around interesting career. How much did you earn in that |
| 1:46.7 | career? Matt, you want to go first? You're, if you want, you may ask me any questions you want other |
| 1:53.3 | than how much he made. Is Brad Penny still pitching? Because I do, I do have his page. That's the |
| 1:58.6 | question. He is still active. Yeah. But he did not pitch in the majors last year. He pitched for |
| 2:04.5 | Triple A Charlotte last year. And went seven and 10 with a 4 4 6 ERA and five strikeouts per nine. |
| 2:12.2 | He was 37. Okay. No, yeah. He was not going to be pitching for long. All right. So Matt, you |
| 2:21.0 | have a guess. What? Can I ask what his total MLB server this time is right now? Yeah. His MLB |
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