Effectively Wild Episode 2100: Here’s How Our Bold Predictions Did

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Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens, and Chris Hanel play a quick round of “College Baseball Player or U.S. Space Shuttle Astronaut,” banter about the Braves’ series of recent, red-paper-clip-style trades (5:21) and the Diamondbacks re-signing Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (14:13), and then revisit, dissect, and score their bold preseason predictions from March (16:22).

Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to “I’m Just Ken”
Link to Atlanta’s transaction tracker
Link to Atlanta’s offseason tracker
Link to payrolls page
Link to Dan S. on Gurriel
Link to predictions episode
Link to predictions and scoring
Link to prediction success rate
Link to Vogelbach ad
Link to story on media gambling
Link to story on BBWAA/betting
Link to story on Gallen bird
Link to story on Brennan bird
Link to story on media gambling
Link to Volpe parm story
Link to Stigler’s law wiki

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TimBasuinoMember since 2018
11 months ago

Phillies actually only used 24 pitchers. 44 players in total

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/2023.shtml

TwinkiePowerMember since 2020
11 months ago
Reply to  TimBasuino

Yep, you’re totally right! Mistake on my part, I was looking at the wrong table while compiling my notes for that. Apologies for the error.

-Chris