Effectively Wild Episode 1511: Season Preview Series: Twins and Pirates

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Mike Trout’ s career spring training stats, then preview the 2020 Minnesota Twins (9:01) with the The Athletic’s Aaron Gleeman , and the 2020 Pittsburgh Pirates (46:33) with The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ’s Jason Mackey , plus a conversation between Ben and Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller (1:19:30) about Keller’s historically unlucky debut MLB season. 2020 EW Season Preview Series AL BAL CHW ATH BOS CLE HOU NYY DET LAA TBR KCR SEA TOR MIN TEX NL ATL CHC ARI MIA CIN COL NYM MIL LAD PHI PIT SDP WSN STL SFG .intro-team, .intro-team td { font-family: lato, Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 20px; } .intro-team .intro-header { /*display: none;*/ text-align: center; } .team-lg { text-align: center; width: 100%; } /* [class^="team-box-"] > div { display: inline-block; width: 48%; } [class^="team-box-"] > div table { width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } [class^="team-box-"] > div td { background-color: #efefef; border: 1px solid #ccc; line-height: 2; text-align: center; cursor: default; } [class^="team-box-"] > div a { color: #000; text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 100% } [class^="team-box-"] > div a:hover { color: #50ae26; } [class^="team-box-"] > div a.link-inactive { color: #aaa; } */ Audio intro : Union Street Preservation Society, " Meet Me in Spring " Audio interstitial : Sleater-Kinney, " Leave You Behind " Audio outro : Ages and Ages, " Just My Luck " Link to Max Marchi on spring training stats Link to story on Takashi Miyoshi’s new role Link to Matt Trueblood on not extending Theo Epstein Link to Jason on the Pirates’ pitching plan Link to Ben on the Archer trade Link to Ben on Keller’s debut year Link to the Banished To The Pen preview series Link to order The MVP Machine iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source