Effectively Wild Episode 1969: Winning Ugly

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter concerning the temperature in Phoenix, writers taking photographs of bases, and Meg taking photographs of the writers, then focus on Meg’s takeaways from MLB’s presentation to media members about this season’s new guidelines, MLB.TV including minor league video games, the Padres signing Michael Wacha (and altering their revenue-sharing classification), and early pitcher accidents, adopted by (29:32) a Stat Blast about how a lot main league expertise comes from a typical farm system. After that (46:44), they speak to The Athletic’s Evan Drellich about his new guide concerning the Astros, the sign-stealing scandal, and fashionable front-office tradition, Profitable Fixes All the things: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports activities’ Largest Mess, plus Previous Blasts from 1969 (1:34:25) and some follow-ups.

Audio intro: The Waterboys, “Greater Image”Audio interstitial: The Rolling Stones, “Profitable Ugly”Audio outro: Dag, “The Greater Image”

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