Effectively Wild Episode 940: Live at Saber Seminar!
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In their first live episode of Effectively Wild, recorded on Saturday at Saber Seminar, Ben and Sam answer listener emails with help from two players, John Baker and David Aardsma.
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| 0:00.0 | So yeah, the year might like to go to the show |
| 0:10.0 | To build war, we love computer, let space can get known |
| 0:19.0 | Tell me is something new in you, such as |
| 0:24.0 | If it's not what you expected to see |
| 0:27.0 | If you wanna find that what's behind these cold eyes |
| 0:32.0 | You just have to blow your way closer this guy |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 940 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:41.0 | The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus |
| 0:44.0 | Presented by our Patreon supporters and playindex at baseballreference.com |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, about to be joined by Sam Miller at Baseball Prospectus |
| 0:53.0 | As Sam and I said we would last week, we did the first ever live episode of Effectively Wild this past weekend |
| 0:58.0 | At Saber Seminar in Boston, we closed down the day on Saturday with some help from two special guests who were in the audience |
| 1:05.0 | Two guys with a lot of major league experience, John Baker and David Ardsma |
| 1:08.0 | John retired last year, he's now a baseball operations assistant for the Cubs |
| 1:12.0 | David's still pitching, using the majors with the Braves last year |
| 1:15.0 | He pitched in AAA for Toronto this season and he's been a contributor to Baseball Essential.com |
| 1:20.0 | We took some old email questions that we'd never actually entered on a show |
| 1:24.0 | And we asked Baker and Ardsma about them |
| 1:26.0 | So I hope you enjoy listening to the no longer live episode of Effectively Wild |
| 1:31.0 | And in just a second you will hear our introduction on Saturday at Saber Seminar by the great Alex Speer of The Boston Globe |
| 1:38.0 | Next up, final act of the final act of the new year, we have Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller |
| 1:43.0 | Ben has proven unable to keep a job for any of his thrilling times |
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