Effectively Wild Episode 1658: Season Preview Series: Cardinals and Cleveland

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about discordant college baseball uniform fonts, a piece by Blake Snell in The Players’ Tribune , and whether there’s a competitive advantage in making the bullpen less visible to the pitcher on the mound, then preview the 2021 Cardinals (15:13) with Will Leitch of MLB.com (and elsewhere) and the 2021 Cleveland baseball team (58:59) with Zack Meisel of The Athletic , plus a postscript about the underrated (and re-signed) Brett Gardner . 2021 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 : The Essex Green, " Uniform " Audio interstitial 1 : William Prince, " Reliever " Audio interstitial 2 : The Essex Green, " Cardinal Points " Audio outro : Devin Davis, " Giant Spiders " Link to Meg’s tweets about uniforms Link to Snell’s column Link to Will on the Arenado deal Link to NL Central roundtable with Will Link to preorder Will’s novel Link to Will’s newsletter Link to Zack on Francona Link to The Athletic bracket of new team names Link to Zack on Rosario Link to Zack on McKenzie Link to Zack on Cleveland’s new middle infield Link to Zack on Cleveland’s pitcher development Link to EW episode about Cleveland’s pitching powerhouse Link to The Selby is Godcast Link to Yankees position-player WAR leaderboard Link to Yankees WAR Runs DP+Baserunning leaderboard Link to 2010-20 MLB position-player WAR leaderboard 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