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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2242: The 10th Annual Free Agent Contract Over/Under Draft

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a listener proposal to artificially designate (and trade) a two-way player, then (19:28) conduct the 10th annual free agent contract over/under draft, plus closing banter (1:09:45) about the new Sacramento team’s city designation, a Philly front-office shuffle, and POBO priority. Audio intro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Ian […]

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0:00.0

Did Richard Love Lady ever strike a Taylor Teagot and who had more war, Jason Kendall or Russell Martin, what if Showeotny's dog was also a good lawyer?

0:08.5

What would you do if Mike Dr. Just showed up in your foyer, or is it foyer?

0:12.8

Find out, uneffectively wild. Find out, uneffectively wild. Find out, uneffectively wild.

0:18.3

Find out uneffectively Wild today.

0:23.1

Hello and welcome to episode 22, 42 of Effectively Wild.

0:27.4

FanGraphs Baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:30.4

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs, and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer.

0:33.6

Ben Livberg, Ben, Ben, hey, Ben, how are you, Ben?

0:37.4

Hi.

0:40.4

How you doing, Ben? Ben Lindberg.

0:48.5

That's it. You nailed it. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you'd be surprised by how many people get that wrong in my daily life. Yeah, I get a lot of Lindenburg.

0:55.0

People just, yeah, they just add an extra syllable in there. Yeah. Yeah. Surprising number and variety of mispronunciations.

1:00.0

Mispronunciations.

1:02.0

I guess I just mispronounced pronunciation of my name, which, you know, there is a famous person, a former famous person with that surname. No relation,

1:12.2

fortunately. I mean, technically there are a couple of famous people, both the guy and the baby,

1:17.8

you know. That is true. That's a famous baby, Ben. Yes. It is a combination of one famous person

1:24.5

with that name or two, but not a common name, not a name you encounter often.

1:29.4

And so I would not know whether that would make people more or less likely to pronounce it

1:34.7

correctly, but they often screw it up. I know you know how to say it. It was just a one-time

1:39.5

fluke there for me, but you asked how I'm doing. I'm doing as well as I can, as are we all,

1:46.7

and we are here to do a draft. It's an annual start of the offseason ritual that we conduct

1:54.3

here at Effectively Wild. We're doing the free agent contracts under overdraft. I never quite know how to hyphenate that when I'm doing the title

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