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FanGraphs Audio provides insightful baseball analysis and commentary in a round table style discussion with your favorite FanGraphs contributors and guests.
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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary
Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary
With NBC 7 San Diego's Darnay Tripp and Derek Togerson behind the mic, On Friar will cover all things San Diego Padres. Interviews, analysis, behind the scenes...the ups, downs, and everything in between.
The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational is the greatest collection of fantasy analysts ever assembled. Each week Justin Mason talks to a different participant in the Invitational about their team and work in the fantasy industry.
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Tigers Radio-A Detroit Tigers & MLB Podcast
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Tigers Radio-A Detroit Tigers & MLB Podcast
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Chris, Rogelio, and Yooper of MotorCityBengals.com talk all things Detroit Tigers, MLB, and the Tigers minor league system.
The Sox Outsider Podcast is a Boston Red Sox podcast hosted by Matthew Kory. There are interviews with baseball insiders and beat writers, as well as analysis of the team, trades, signings, ups, downs, and everything a baseball season entails. This is the companion podcast to the Sox Outsider substack newsletter (soxoutsider.substack.com). Matthew Kory has written for The Athletic, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, Sports on Earth, Fox Sports, and other sites.
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Effectively Wild Episode 1800: All of This Has Happened Before
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley lean into the lockout by exploring two antecedents to today’s MLB labor stalemate. First, they banter with Emma Baccellieri of Sports Illustrated about whether the Hall of Fame Vote Tracker has helped or hurt Hall of Fame conversations, then talk to Emma about the Players’ League, a short-lived but groundbreaking 19th-c…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1799: Miller’s Crossing
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley reconnect with former cohost Sam Miller to discuss what he’s been up to since he stopped working for ESPN in December 2020, how the 2021 Giants rekindled his fandom, the pros and cons of paying attention to projections, what (if anything) he’s missed about covering baseball professionally, his plans for the future, the …
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Tigers Radio-A Detroit Tigers & MLB Podcast
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Episode 416: Talking Tigers ZiPS, Neelix and David Bowie with Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs
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Chris and Rogelio talk to Dan Szymborski from FanGraphs about the Tigers' ZiPS projections, 80's sitcoms, play some music trivia and the general state of baseball in 2022. To help out friend of the show Emily Waldon and her fight against cancer, check out the links below: https://rotowear.com/products/pitching-ninja-shirt-emilys-fight-edition https…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1798: The 2022 Minor League Free Agent Draft
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Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs writer Ben Clemens banter about a few details of MLB’s latest labor proposal to the players, the conclusion of and possible confounding factors behind a Bill James study about how switching teams affects a player’s chances of Hall of Fame induction, another historic hire of a woman in baseball, and a prospec…
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Chin Music
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Chin Music, Episode 47: Lighten Up, Francis
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This week’s Chin Music is a little bit late but it’s for a good reason, as we finally had baseball news on Thursday with Major League Baseball and the MLBPA meeting for the first time since the lockout began six weeks ago. To discuss said news, I’m joined by the inimitable Jeff Passan of ESPN. We begin by spending over an hour discussing what happe…
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FanGraphs Audio: Dan Dickerson and Don Gonyea Go Way Back
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Episode 957 This week on the show, David Laurila is joined by Dan Dickerson, radio voice of the Detroit Tigers who last joined us back in episode 892, and Don Gonyea, a long-time political correspondent for National Public Radio and a diehard Tigers fan in his own right. Dan and Don share stories of their decades-long friendship, as well as the bas…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1797: Familiarity Breeds Contempt
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a bargaining meeting between MLB and the MLBPA that reportedly produced little progress toward a deal, the odds of a punctual start to the season, the retirement of Jon Lester and their lasting fascination with his pickoff-throw yips, a familiarity penalty for relievers who face the same team multiple times…
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On Friar, An NBC 7 Padres Podcast
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Padres Prospects: How Deep is San Diego's System? MadFriars' John Conniff Lets Us Know
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For half a decade the Padres minor league system has been touted as one of the best in baseball. Then they dipped in big time with trades for high-profile players. So, how deep is it now and can it help in 2022? The hosts talk with Padres prospect guru John Conniff to get a read on the current state of affairs with the Friars farmhands. See Privacy…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1796: Major League Biasball
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Rachel Balkovec becoming the first female manager in affiliated ball, Genevieve Beacom making her pro debut in Australia, and other women breaking baseball boundaries, then (13:20) conclude their “Measuring the Unmeasurable” series about studying difficult-to-quantify aspects of the sport by bringing on Rob…
John Moore of BaseballCloudBlog.com joins the crew to discuss his off-season article about the Detroit Tigers, the new manager in Erie and the baseball lockout continues to be a pain in the ass. John's article-https://baseballcloud.blog/2021/12/29/thoughts-on-the-tigers-offseason/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/TigersRadioPod See omnystu…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1795: Measured Tones
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley continue their “Measuring the Unmeasurable” series about studying difficult-to-quantify aspects of the sport by bringing on Rob Mains of Baseball Prospectus to banter about ESPN’s new Sunday Night Baseball broadcasting plans and discuss Rob’s studies about competitive balance, team mobility and inequality, starter vs. r…
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Chin Music, Episode 46: I’m Looking in My Drawers Right Now
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Chin Music enters 2022 with more prospect talk, which means another co-hosting spot from the always entertaining Eric Longenhagen, as we ramble for two hours and don’t even need a guest to do it. We begin by talking about the current state of the pandemic and if professional baseball is even tenable given these circumstances. Then, after a brief ch…
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FanGraphs Audio: Rob Kaminsky Discusses the Learning Curve
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Episode 956 On this edition of FanGraphs Audio, David Laurila welcomes Rob Kaminsky, former first-rounder and St. Louis Cardinal. The pair first spoke back in 2014, and while Kaminsky has put a lot of baseball under his belt since then, he is still just 27 years old. We hear stories about coming up with Carson Kelly, Alex Reyes, and previous podcas…
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On Friar, An NBC 7 Padres Podcast
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Projecting the 2022 Padres With Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs
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We needed something new to talk about amidst the lockout and Dan Szymborski came through in a major way this week. The ZiPS creator dropped his projections for the Padres, and spent time discussing how his system works and what it says about this year's club. From an enormous number for Tatis, to a less exciting outlook on Hosmer the guys ask what …
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Effectively Wild Episode 1794: Play Up and Pay Up
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley continue their “Measuring the Unmeasurable” series about studying difficult-to-quantify aspects of the sport by talking to Patrick Brennan about his studies on assessing player development at the major and minor league levels, the challenges of evaluating player development, the data he wishes he had, the most and least…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1793: Measuring the Unmeasurable
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Fanatics purchasing Topps and MLB Network reportedly parting ways with Ken Rosenthal because of his criticism of Rob Manfred. Then (27:36) they kick off a series of episodes about measuring difficult-to-quantify aspects of the sport by talking to Cameron Grove about translating his study of astrophysics int…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1792: Should Old Infractions Be Forgot
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss Ben’s decision regarding his Hall of Fame ballot, and how to handle Hall of Fame voting in the future. Then (38:05) they complete their series of discussions of Korean baseball drama Stove League by breaking down the last four episodes (13-16) and reflecting on the series as a whole. Audio intro: Blood Red Shoes…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1791: The Stories We Missed in 2021
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the retirement of Kyle Seager and the lockout implications of a recent report about player payrolls, then discuss an assortment of listener-nominated, team-centric topics that they had previously overlooked on the podcast in 2021. Audio intro: Spooky Tooth, “Kyle” Audio outro: Hockey Dad, “I Missed Out” Lin…
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FanGraphs Audio: Manny Acta Brings Anecdotes
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Episode 955 This week, we get stories from a baseball lifer before a casual chat about some teams that could use a little help. At the top of the show, David Laurila welcomes Manny Acta, former major league manager, current third base coach for the Mariners, and founder of the impACTA Kids charity foundation. David asks Acta about growing up in the…
