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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 831: 2016 Season Preview Series: Detroit Tigers

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam preview the Tigers’ season with FiveThirtyEight author Rob Arthur, and George talks to MLB.com Tigers beat writer Jason Beck (at 22:06).

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0:00.0

Chaps and time, and I don't know what to do.

0:04.5

These friends are mine, I can see right through.

0:09.0

You don't gotta tell me, I don't gotta move.

0:14.0

Cause I'm sitting back here, shattering the ground.

0:21.0

Hello and welcome to episode 831 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

0:30.4

perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

0:33.9

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538 joined by Sam Miller at baseball perspective.

0:38.8

Hello 831.

0:39.8

It's a lot.

0:40.8

Periodically you're struck by how many episodes we've done.

0:45.4

It does it.

0:46.4

It's three every 40 episodes or so.

0:48.4

It's sneaks up on you.

0:49.4

It just hits you like the flow.

0:52.4

I'm going to assume that you're doing okay.

0:56.4

I'm going to continue with this introduction.

0:58.4

Sure.

0:59.4

We are doing the Tigers preview podcast today later in this episode.

1:03.4

George Bissill will talk to Jason Beck who covers the Tigers for MLB.com.

1:08.4

But first we are talking to the author of the Tigers essay in the BP annual and a colleague

1:14.8

of mine at 538 as well as a recent contributor to some other sites like Slate and Wall Street

1:20.0

Journal, Rob Arthur.

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