Effectively Wild Episode 932: Fixing the Angels Without Trading Trout
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about Matt Albers’ heartbreaking blown save, then discuss how much talent the Angels could acquire in a franchise-saving firesale.
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| 0:00.0 | Albers who got three outs in the eight will start the night. |
| 0:05.0 | No career saves, but I give it about an 8% chance he'll finish this game. |
| 0:11.0 | And you think he would have picked one up somewhere along the way. |
| 0:14.0 | 437 games pitched in his career. |
| 0:16.0 | 438 counting tonight. |
| 0:18.0 | What makes go is going to set us for life. |
| 0:24.0 | And I like the dream. |
| 0:26.0 | And I like the dream. |
| 0:31.0 | This is the big one you understand. |
| 0:35.0 | I have a plan. |
| 0:40.0 | I have a plan. |
| 0:43.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 932 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 0:49.0 | perspective. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello Ben. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello. |
| 0:58.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:59.0 | Doing alright. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm still recovering from the drama Monday night, which we didn't get to talk about yesterday. |
| 1:05.0 | But we came closer than we've come during the life of this podcast to an actual Matt Albers save. |
| 1:12.0 | So it was a scary moment. |
| 1:14.0 | My heart was in my throat. |
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