Effectively Wild Episode 1997: This Time it Pitch Counts
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Realignment of the National League
The owners could not get on the same page about this drastic radical realignment plan. One issue was the different DH rules at the time, and owners had the right to refuse a change of league. Edgar Martinez said he would retire if the Mariners moved to the National League. So that would have been bad if that had happened.
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