Effectively Wild Episode 2094: Double Secret Shobation

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley (at the Winter Meetings in Nashville) banter about how the secrecy surrounding Shohei Ohtani’s free agency is breaking baseball media members’ brains, what makes free agency fun for fans, the advisability of a winter transaction deadline and whether it’s OK for baseball to just be boring sometimes, and the latest ridiculous dot-connecting about Ohtani’s destination, plus (41:50) discussion of the Winter Meetings milieu, the Jarred Kelenic swap (43:55) and what it means for the Mariners, the Yankees’ Alex Verdugo deal (1:00:30), the Orioles’ Craig Kimbrel signing (1:06:05), Erick Fedde joining the White Sox (1:15:24), and a smattering of minor news and transactions, followed (1:18:08) by a conclusive solution to a recent Stat Blast mystery and an outro rendition (1:24:43) of the classic Michael Baumann baseball ditty “What Did Jerry Dipoto Do?” Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Michael Baumann, “What Did Jerry Dipoto Do?” Link to Olney column Link to Rosenthal column Link to Mintz column Link to O’Brien tweet Link to Janes tweet Link to Janes column Link to article on Ohtani’s agent Link to article on Jays meeting Link to article on Giants meeting Link to flight-tracking tweet Link to Washington quotes Link to quote about Boone’s face Link to Nightengale on Roberts Link to article on Roberts/Gomes Link to tweet about Friedman Link to EW branzino wiki Link to Opryland photos Link to Hollander’s quote Link to Dipoto quotes Link to Baumann on Kelenic Link to Dubuque on Kelenic Link to Clemens on Brewers SPs Link to Gilligan on Kelly Link to Roberts on Betts Link to Roberts on Kershaw Link to Blum on Trout Link to Baumann on Yates Link to Clemens on Verdugo Link to Baumann on Kimbrel Link to Longenhagen on Fedde Link to tweet about Fedde Link to Verdugo benching info Link to Verdugo Dodgers incident Link to EW episode 2093 Link to 1998 Baseball Weekly article Link to 1998 Ocker article Link to 1998 AP article Link to 1998 game’s play log Link to 2000 game’s play log Link to latest-first-whiff data Link to longest whiff-less stretches Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to Nightengale “two sides” tweet Link to 1998 clip 1 Link to 1998 clip 2 Link to 1998 clip 3 Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet  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