Effectively Wild Episode 2243: Roki of the Year

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen banter about how to abbreviate Twins executive Derek Falvey’s new dual role as president of both baseball and business operations, then (5:23) discuss Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki from a scouting perspective, touching on how good he could be, how a team could ease him into MLB, what […]

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0:00.0	Let's play ball.
0:02.2	It's effectively wild.
0:05.0	It's effectively wild.
0:08.1	It's effectively wild.
0:09.8	Hello and welcome to episode 2243 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:19.9	Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:23.0	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. Hello, Meg.
0:27.7	Hello.
0:28.3	Also with us is your colleague Eric Longenhagen, also of Fangraph's lead prospect analyst, etc.
0:35.4	Eric, welcome back. It's been so long.
0:37.9	Thank you.
0:39.1	This is the sound of my voice.
0:43.2	I have to tell Meg, my phlebotomist today said to say hi to you.
0:46.5	All right.
0:48.1	Ben, you weren't mentioned.
0:48.7	I don't know why.
0:49.6	Huh.
0:50.8	All right.
0:52.1	Snubbed by the phlebotomist.
0:52.6	That's okay.
1:12.7	I'll get over it. It's been sort of a slow news week in baseball except for one big bit of news. And so we're going to devote essentially this entire episode to that news, which is that Roki Sasaki is coming. He's coming stateside. He is being posted by his NPP team, the Chippilote Marines. And so we're going to talk to Eric about the scouting and signing aspects of that. Later in the episode, we're going to be joined
1:19.1	by NPP journalist Jim Allen to talk about the implications for the Marines and for Japanese
	...

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