Effectively Wild Episode 2129: Season Preview Series: Twins and Tigers

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Boras Four behind the scenes, Hyun Jin Ryu’ s salary-cap-skirting KBO contract, and a study on the effectiveness of complaining about umps, plus a Stat Blast (22:51) about an inaccurate, unkillable Greg Maddux fun fact and more musings (34:52) on transparent pants. Then they preview the 2024 Minnesota Twins (41:02) with The Athletic’ s Aaron Gleeman , and the 2024 Detroit Tigers (1:12:50) with The Athletic ’s Cody Stavenhagen . 2024 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 : Beatwriter, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial 1 : Davy Andrews, “ Edouard Julien, Are You Gonna Rule Again? ” Audio interstitial 2 : The Gagnés, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Nate Emerson, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to MLBTR on the Boras Four Link to article about Boras Link to Boras facilities Link to Ryu tweet Link to Ryu article Link to MLBTR on Judge offer Link to Harper offer report Link to Kovalchuk veto Link to Yoo’s EW appearance Link to umpire study Link to EW on ump decision fatigue Link to Boone EW hypothetical Link to Ryan’s Maddux fact thread Link to Maddux’s count splits Link to Maddux Stat Blast data Link to Maddux scouting reports Link to Maddux 93 mph claim Link to MLB pants statement Link to Twins offseason tracker Link to Diamondbacks depth chart Link to Pohlad comments Link to Aaron’s Athletic archive Link to Gleeman and the Geek Link to Tigers offseason tracker Link to Tigers depth chart Link to Cody on engagements Link to Cody’s Athletic archive Link to Skubal fWAR leaderboard Link to article on MLB exec fashion Link to Turning the Corner 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