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  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: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source