Effectively Wild Episode 85: Manny Acta and the Blue Jays’ Managerial Job

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2012

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether Manny Acta’s lousy career win-loss record has any bearing on his likelihood of success if he becomes the Blue Jays’ manager.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 85 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball
0:18.0	perspective.
0:19.2	It is Monday, November 19th.
0:22.3	I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California and I'm with Ben Lindbergh in New York, New
0:27.7	York.
0:28.7	Ben, how are you doing?
0:29.7	Great.
0:30.7	I found out that the royals signed Brendan Wood to a minor league deal, so if we could
0:36.7	discuss the implications for the AL Central.
0:39.9	And I found out that Brendan Ryan's middle name is Wood, so he is Brendan Wood and his
0:46.0	offensive numbers are very similar.
0:48.9	I wasn't sure how to develop that into a full thought, but it is something that I discovered
0:53.6	this weekend.
0:54.6	Well, that's probably more than I accomplished this weekend.
1:00.9	So it's your turn to bring a topic?
1:03.0	Yeah, and I brought one this time.
1:06.0	I thought we could talk about Maniacta.
1:10.5	So the latest rumors surrounding the Blue Jays now that they've gone a couple days without
1:15.9	making a major player move is that they are getting close to announcing their manager.
1:23.2	After only hears he heard this, that the club is now close to naming a new manager.
1:30.3	He mentioned Jim Tracy and Jim Regulman initially.
1:35.1	Then there were subsequent reports that Jim Regulman had not even been contacted, and then
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