Effectively Wild Episode 2241: The Most Fascinating Free Agents and Offseason Storylines

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs writer Ben Clemens banter about the latest batch of Scott Boras puns, position changes for Willson Contreras and Mookie Betts, surgery for Shohei Ohtani, Skip Schumaker’s move to Texas, and Buster Posey’s front-office philosophy, then (47:21) discuss Other Ben’s top 50 free agents list—focusing on Juan Soto, Blake Snell, Corbin Burnes, […]

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0:00.0	Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild, Effectively Wilde.
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2241 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGrafts
0:23.1	presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:25.6	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, not joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs, who's off today.
0:30.5	She'll be back next time.
0:32.0	I am joined by another member of the Fangraph staff.
0:35.6	Other Ben, Ben Clemens, we're here for some double-barreled Ben action.
0:40.1	Always pleased to welcome you back. Hello, Ben.
0:42.9	Hey, Ben. How's it going?
0:44.0	You know, it's all right. It's been better. It's been a tumultuous week. But in the middle of this week of upheaval, when we all need a little levity in our lives, a little distraction,
0:56.7	Scott Boris rode to the rescue with some of his patented puns. I'm not saying it improved my mood
1:04.1	permanently, but there was a little while there where Scotty brought a smile to my face,
1:08.9	and because you are here and Meg is not, it falls to you to react to the latest and greatest Scott Boris Witticisms and wordplay.
1:20.0	So I'm sure you've seen this.
1:22.0	How could anyone not?
1:23.1	I've seen at least one of them.
1:25.1	Okay.
1:25.4	Well, I think there are at least five. So some of these may be new to you.
1:30.3	This may be breaking Boris News. So I guess I'll read them to you and maybe you can grade them.
1:39.3	I don't know what scale exactly one would grade these on, just like grownworthiness.
1:46.9	Maybe just your organic reaction will be enough of a grade.
1:51.8	But here we go.
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