Effectively Wild Episode 1298: The Paxton Pact

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Tommy Milone and Willians Astudillo , Bryce Harper ‘s awful fielding in 2018, two more examples of percentages greater than 100, and Adrian Beltre ’s retirement and atypical, incredible career, then (23:34) bring on new FanGraphs managing editor Meg Rowley to talk about both sides of the Yankees-Mariners James Paxton trade, how good Paxton is, the Mariners’ future, the definition of acehood, and a few aspects of her new job, including anxiety about covering breaking news, the difficulty of replacing writers who get hired by teams, the balance between stats stuff and non-stats stuff, common writing pitfalls, representing (and extending opportunities to) women in a male-oriented industry, weekday vs. weekend website traffic, balancing writing and editing, and more. Audio intro : Franz Ferdinand, " Darts of Pleasure " Audio interstitial : Camera Obscura, " James " Audio outro : Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, " Walkin’ Boss " Link to Ben on Harper’s defense Link to darts story Link to Ben on Beltre Link to Jeff on the Paxton trade Link to EW Secret Santa sign-up 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