Effectively Wild Episode 2084: The Sexiest Free Agents Alive
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about norovirus derailing the GM meetings, leftover Boras quotes, and the baseball players deemed sexiest by People magazine, Stat Blast (18:47) about a possible bunting comeback and whether age is correlated with pitch-clock violations, and then (43:39) talk to FanGraphs writer Ben Clemens about the free-agent market and his ranking of the top 50 free agents.
Audio intro: Josh Busman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Apstein report
Link to Passan typo
Link to Park video
Link to Boras on Cohen
Link to Yogi Aflac ad
Link to Boras on Boston
Link to Baumann’s predictions
Link to People on Dempsey
Link to People on athletes
Link to People on reader poll
Link to Ohtani’s gloves post
Link to Hal on Boone’s bunts
Link to Thames quote
Link to Dipoto’s comments
Link to Petriello tweet
Link to Orr tweet
Link to playoff bunt hits
Link to playoff sacrifices
Link to regular-season bunts
Link to bunting wRC+
Link to non-pitcher bunting wRC+
Link to pre-extras, non-pitcher wRC+
Link to Rob Mains on bunting
Link to Tango thread about bunting
Link to sac/non-sac data
Link to Lucas Apostoleris on Twitter
Link to Episode 2051 wiki
Link to Epstein quote
Link to Topps Now
Link to Players Choice awards
Link to violations question
Link to violations leaderboard
Link to Episode 1991 wiki
Link to team violation correlations
Link to player violation correlations
Link to Rob on age and pace
Link to Moneyball clip
Link to handwashing PSA
Link to top 50 FA ranking
Link to top 50 FA chat
Link to Sam on Ohtani and Ruth
Link to article about Benetti
Link to article on Harper and 1B
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