Effectively Wild Episode 1674: Season Preview Series: Yankees and Pirates

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg getting vaccinated, the social dynamics of looser restrictions for vaccinated MLB players, an update on the infamous Tom & Jerry baseball scene, another baseball term named after a player, Willians Astudillo making the Twins, a few other players not making their respective teams, politicians’ performative fandom, Randy Dobnak and the future of contract extensions, and FanGraphs’ spring membership drive, then preview the 2021 Yankees (41:14) with Lindsey Adler of the The Athletic and the 2021 Pirates (1:19:54) with Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . 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 : Danko/Fjeld/Andersen, " One More Shot " Audio interstitial 1 : Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, " Yankee Go Home " Audio interstitial 2 : The Lemonheads, " Pittsburgh " Audio outro : Golden Earring, " One Shot Away From Paradise " Link to Lindsey on vaccinations and protocols Link to Tom & Jerry baseball scene Link to Hader tweets and 2018 ASG Link to Laurila’s latest Sunday Notes Link to video of Willians out at second Link to Willians styling his homer Link to Yang tweets Link to reversible Mets/Yankees mask Link to Tony Wolfe on the Dobnak extension Link to Sam on contract extensions Link to FanGraphs’ new contributors Link to FanGraphs spring membership drive Link to Travis on the “elbow spiral” Link to Lindsey on the pitching workshop Link to story on Kratz and García Link to Brault’s showtunes album Link to Ben on Keller’s 2020 Link to Jason’s interview with Nutting 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