Effectively Wild Episode 1942: Get Interested in Interest Rates!

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the Pirates’ Vince Velasquez hype video, a “mutant choice” for Cody Bellinger, and a Francisco Rodríguez-only Corridor of Fame poll, then (22:09) talk about Carlos Correa’s 13-year contract with the Giants and its implications for the NL West, the Twins and Cubs, and the way forward for old-player manufacturing, together with musings on the state of the Dodgers’ rotation after their signing of Noah Syndergaard. After that (51:24), FanGraphs author Ben Clemens joins to get everybody all for rates of interest and clarify why the CBA and financial circumstances have inspired groups to signal so many free brokers to extraordinarily prolonged offers this winter. They shut (1:22:40) with a Previous Blast from 1942.

Audio intro: The Luxembourg Sign, “Ramblin’ Rodriguez”
Audio interstitial: The Maintain Regular, “On With the Business”
Audio outro: PUP, “Grim Reaping”

Link to Velasquez video
Link to signing tweet
Link to Priester video
Link to laptop tweet
Link to Pirates’ winter moves
Link to “mutant option” tweet
Link to Foolish tweet
Link to Belisle mutual option
Link to bad ballot
Link to Dan S. on Correa
Link to Mallory Pugh wiki
Link to Eisert on Syndergaard
Link to Dodgers depth chart
Link to SP depth charts
Link to Simon on Correa
Link to Olney on Judge
Link to Ricketts comment
Link to Ben on long deals
Link to Rosenthal on long deals
Link to EW on long deals
Link to Kovalchuk article
Link to NPR on interest rates
Link to 1942 story source
Link to FDR’s letter
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to Carlin video
Link to Carlin transcript
Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet
Link to Secret Santa FB thread