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Podcast: Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Episode: Effectively Wild Episode 1929: Double Your Drafting, Double Your Fun
Description:
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Scott Boras’s opinions about postseason pitch clocks and a neutral-site World Series, discuss Meg’s NL Rookie of the Year vote (14:16) and the rookie class, and then conduct two drafts: the eighth free-agent-contract over/under draft (35:37), and the fifth World Series odds movers draft (1:29:46), plus a Past Blast (1:48:40) from 1929 and a postscript.
Audio intro: Whitehorse, “Best Bet”
Audio outro: Aimee Mann, “Mr. Harris”
Link to Boras’s pitch-clock comment
Link to Boras on the World Series
Link to Ben on the rookie class
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