Effectively Wild Episode 1980: Season Preview Series: Rays and Tigers

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about recent WBC highlights, whether the WBC should be held more often (7:44), extensions for Corbin Carroll and Keibert Ruiz (19:50), MLB preparing to take over streaming for some teams amid the Diamond Sports bankruptcy (21:22), Trevor Bauer departing for Japan (31:17), and an Effectively Wild theme song contest (35:43), then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Tampa Bay Rays (42:57) with Adam Berry of MLB.com, and the Detroit Tigers (1:15:04) with Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic , plus a Past Blast from 1980 (1:53:29) and trivia answers (1:57:34). 2023 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 : Jaquan Grant, “ Baseball Rich ” Audio interstitial 1 : David Lawrence, “ I Wander On ” Audio interstitial 2 : Camden, “ You Little Tiger ” Audio outro : Gilles Cardoni, “ Super 80 ” Link to Puerto Rico “perfect game” Link to Mitch Bratt story Link to Meneses homers Link to Zach Buchanan on Meneses Link to Ohtani homer Link to Ohtani strikeout Link to story on Satoria Link to Satoria interview Link to Pool A tiebreak story Link to “change my mind” meme Link to Caribbean Series wiki Link to Baseball World Cup wiki Link to MLBTR on Carroll Link to Buchanan on Carroll Link to tweet about Carroll Link to MLBTR on Ruiz Link to story on Diamond and MLB Link to MLBTR on Bauer Link to Jim Allen on Bauer Link to story about P-G strike Link to union info about strike Link to strike fund Link to FanGraphs playoff odds Link to FG payroll breakdown Link to Rays offseason tracker Link to Rays depth chart Link to Emma B. on Brady Williams Link to Adam’s spring preview Link to Adam’s author archive Link to Tigers offseason tracker Link to Tigers depth chart Link to Dan S. on breakout hitters Link to Cody’s spring preview Link to Cody on Comerica dimensions Link to Cody on Maton Link to Cody on injury prevention Link to Cody on Turnbull Link to Cody’s author archive Link to Cody’s Tigers podcast Link to 1980 article source Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter Link to Damon on the Bananas Link to MLBTR on Diamond Link to EW episode on sharting Link to Hernández tweet Link to Shane McKeon’s Twitter Link to Shane’s website Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source