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Podcast: Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Episode: Effectively Wild Episode 1967: Season Preview Series: Angels and Red Sox (Plus Joe West)
Description:
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Yu Darvish’s extension, then continue their 2023 season preview series by previewing the 2023 Los Angeles Angels (10:06) with The Athletic’s Sam Blum and the 2023 Boston Red Sox (59:27) with The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier, plus a Past Blast (1:47:23) from 1967, an impromptu chat between Ben and former MLB umpire Joe West about whether/why West edited his own Wikipedia page (1:50:07), and a few follow-ups (2:11:37).
2023 EW Season Preview Series
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