Effectively Wild Episode 2139: Season Preview Series: Braves and White Sox

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Giants signing Blake Snell , whether Snell is now underrated, San Francisco’s offseason, Scott Boras’s offseason, leaguewide spending, an MLBPA power struggle, and (39:03) a 150-year-old message about baseball players in spring, then preview the 2024 Atlanta Braves (45:42) with 92.9 The Game’s Grant McAuley , and the 2024 Chicago White Sox (1:24:54) with Sox Machine’s James Fegan . 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 : Ted O., “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial 1 : Grant Brisbee, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial 2 : The Gagnés, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Guy Russo, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to positional power rankings Link to Baumann on Snell Link to MLBTR on Snell Link to Anderson on Snell Link to Nightengale on Snell Link to Feinsand on Snell Link to Snell sim game Link to Farhan tweet Link to Giants PR problems Link to Grant on Brooks-Moon Link to MLBTR on Felipe Link to Rosenthal on Boras Link to Dan S. thread Link to Drellich on MLBPA Link to MLBTR on MLBPA Link to Giamatti essay Link to Harwell recording Link to 1874 column 1 Link to 1874 column 2 Link to reading soundtrack Link to November trade Link to Braves offseason tracker Link to Braves depth chart Link to Strider curve article Link to AA extension article Link to Ryan Nelson tweet Link to SP projections Link to RP projections Link to From the Diamond site Link to From the Diamond podcast Link to White Sox offseason tracker Link to White Sox depth chart Link to Crochet precursors Link to Ben on ex-player GMs Link to November Getz quote Link to February Getz quote Link to Battlestar quote Link to Sox ballpark coverage Link to team defense projections Link to James’s Sox Machine archive Link to Sox Machine Patreon Link to Sox Machine podcast Link to ballpark meetup forms Link to meetup organizer form 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