Effectively Wild Episode 979: Mike Trout and the Post-MVP Era

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Kyle Gaedele, then share their thoughts on Mike Trout’s second MVP Award and what it does and doesn’t say about both Trout and the BBWAA.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 979 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball
0:20.9	perspective presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:25.8	My name is Ben Lindbergh, writer for the Ringer, joined as always by Sam Miller of ESPN.
0:31.9	Hello.
0:32.9	So figured we could do a little MVP talk since we both wrote about it, anything else you
0:38.0	want to talk about?
0:39.0	Yeah, I meant to bring this up when we were talking about Eddie Gidell the other day, but
0:43.4	you probably know his grand nephew, his great nephew, his grand nephew, I'm not sure
0:47.7	which is it.
0:49.7	He was drafted last year in 2015 by the San Diego Padres and is like a genuine baseball
0:59.9	star.
1:00.9	And I'm...
1:01.9	Where was he drafted?
1:04.2	What round?
1:05.2	Sixth round.
1:06.2	He had previously been drafted at a high school by the raise much lower and didn't sign.
1:11.2	And I don't know, I said last year, it wasn't last year.
1:14.0	What it actually was was last year he was released.
1:16.9	So his minor league career ended last year.
1:20.2	He made it to double A. He's currently playing in Indyball and has a good line, had a good
1:26.8	line last year, but not that interesting.
1:29.7	308, 399, 517 in the Frontier League, 24 steals in 26 attempts.
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