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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"danielle allen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"We have completed the series by the end of this episode. We will have so relieved I'm happy I'm also glad that we did it again. Yeah, and certainly very appreciative of everyone who joined us to preview all of these teams. But yeah, it's a big undertaking, Ben, and you know, we time it with a time of year where there's just nothing else going on. So it's fine. Well, I know it's busy for you what with prospect season and positional power ranking season, but that is usually the case on the baseball calendar, except this spring, there turned out to be a super exciting WBC. Anyway, we made time for it all. And we do have two more teams to go today. We will be talking to grant Macaulay about the braves very shortly, followed by Danielle Allen tuck about the Colorado Rockies, the best and worst projected teams according to the fan grafts playoff ads page. The bang in the whimper. Yeah. And then it'll be opening day, very soon. Later this week, don't know if you've noticed. I think you have, but it's almost like we planned it that way so that we would complete previewing the season before the season started. Funny. Yeah. That works out. So the braves are projected with, I suppose you could say modest 93.4 wins for a team that's on top there. That's a 57.3% chance to win the NL east competitive division, a 91% chance to make the playoffs. And then, at the rockies, just fractions of a wind beneath the nationals, 66.1, and also a 0.0% chance to win the division and a 0.2% chance to make the playoffs. So as always, we are fan grafts are saying that there is a chance. But we will get into those two teams in just a moment and I guess just we will quickly react to some of the opening day raster decisions that have been announced already, right? Some of that news is still trickling out, but we're getting announcements about prominent players and prospects who have or haven't made major league groceries and nothing more exciting, nothing that gets you more hyped for an opening day, I don't think then a franchise player winning a job. Making the opening day roster, that is just always a real charge, I think, that gets put into you at the start of a season. So this year, Yankees fans are enjoying that because Anthony boby has won the shortstop job in The Bronx. Jordan walker making the opening day lineup for St. Louis, so that's exciting. Oscar colas making the White Sox, have I missed any other prominent promotions? As we were getting ready to record one of our segments today, braced terrain for Milwaukee is going to make the opening day roster. I think those are the most prominent ones that I can think of at least that we've gotten in the last couple of days. Yeah, volpi, I think, is particularly exciting. Walker is maybe even more exciting just because of how incredible a spring he just had. He had a nice spring himself. But I think it would make me optimistic as the Yankees Finn that they are not holding down volpi for service time related reasons and playing either president or ikf and kind of fluffy like we've seen that act. You know, and just to go for it and say, yeah, we're going to put the young player we think is actually the best who might make a difference in a tight division. And as we've covered, there's a little more incentive to promote the prospects on opening day because of the CPA and the chance to get a draft pick if you have a high rookie of the year finish. So there's some incentive there, but it's also nice just to see them go for it, especially when players make convincing cases like copy and walker did during spring. Yeah, and there are teams that are not taking that approach, right babies not making the mets opening day roster, Grayson Rodriguez isn't making Baltimore's opening day roster. I know that parts of his spring have been kind of rough. It is interesting just because they got and I know that the injury situation with adley kind of complicated things for them in some ways or at least makes this comp a little more cloudy, but it is interesting that an org that sort of got burned by not acting on the incentives of the new CBA is potentially in position to do that again, right? Because of where rutman finished in rookie of the year voting, he got a full year of service time, even though he wasn't up right away. And he was obviously injured for part of that, but it seemed like they took their time after the injury. And, you know, you can have a guy on your opening day roster and then send it back down if he's not playing well. So it's interesting that Baltimore is still kind of hewing to that approach and then the baby didn't make the mets opening day roster and now they've DF 8 Darren ruff, so it's interesting. I think Mike bowens is going to write about this for us at some point this week trying to assess just how much of the current situation is really us being able to say, hey, the CVA is doing this versus particular teams having sort of a predilection for either promoting guys when they're ready, you know, it's not surprising to me that Jordan walker having had the spring he had that the cardinals are just having him on the opening day roster. They tend to not mess around with that stuff, right? We look at last year and the royals had Bobby with junior on their roster and they tend to not mess around. So we've seen San Diego to this at times in the past. So there are teams that are just sort of doing what they normally do. When presented with a good spring performance and then others were maybe there are idiosyncratic considerations that might push them in a particular year, like I think Julio Rodriguez made a really strong case for himself last year and the Mariners were surely aware how bad it would look for a team that hadn't been to the postseason and as long as they had to hold a guy down just a game of service time and then didn't matter because they assigned him to a potentially incredibly lucrative extension. So I think we're still in sort of data gathering mode in terms of how effective these incentives have been, but I'm sure that fans of the cardinals and fans of the brewers and fans of the Yankees certainly aren't really thinking about any of that. They're just super stoked to see their guys. So it's exciting for them. Yeah, before spring training started my Goliath GM of the Orioles had said that he expected Rodriguez to make the opening day roster and then Rodriguez went out and posted a 7 ERA in spring training. Now he did strike out a lot of guys. He also walked a fair amount of guys and gave up some dingers, so I would think I would hope that if he had put together a better spring performance, he would have made the team because you'd think that he might have made the team last year or should have if he had not gotten hurt. So I don't know what you read into 15 innings, whether they were looking for an excuse not to promote him or whether they thought that actually was a cause for concern and needed him to pitch a little bit better coming off the injury to earn his place on that roster. But it was notable when he didn't guarantee that he would make the opening day roster, but strongly suggested that he would. So if Rodriguez had pitched better in spring trading than I think maybe Elias would have been bound by his words there. So whether they just use this spring performance as an out or whether they thought it was a legitimate cause for concern, I don't know, but a little disappointing.
Boston Public Radio Podcast
"danielle allen" Discussed on Boston Public Radio Podcast
"Reality is. There's a cycle and there are certain things that one needs to do and and and the like. So you know it's something that i'm thinking about now and taking the time to consider you know. We have interviewed the three democrats. Who of announced danielle allen from harvard Former state senator. Ben downing things that are sonia changde is when there is somebody it and i think this works on the republican side with baker governor baker. Not saying what he's doing or not doing when there's somebody who is considered the prohibitive favorite should he or she decide to run and they don't announce it sort of freezes other people in their party in terms of their ability to get support financial backing etcetera. Does that go into your thinking in terms of your timing. About what your non announcement so far does to the other democrats. I assume you want a democrat to governor of what does the other democrats campaigns. I should a couple of things one. I have worked with or now have spoken with all of the current democratic candidates. I like them. And i appreciate to them. Stephanie ford it is not easy especially in this day and age to put your name on a ballot and to run for office. I've great respect for them and number two. You know i. I understand the comment. You're making I also say these decisions are. They're they're deeply personal and you know they require. I think the the the the significance in weight of any public office requires considered personal deliberation. Where one can make a difference. What makes sense personally and professionally. And so i understand you know there there. There are some who won't be off to the races and writing and covering races and all that but the business of government and governing especially in this time. And i know you know this is your comment at your question. It serious stuff right. I just wanna get that right got ton somerville. Thank you for calling. You're on with the attorney. General high so Attorney general healy. It is wonderful to hear you in here and support you in so many ways. But i just wanted to ask you in context of the recent reports that opium overdoses in the united states are hitting records right now and that's true in massachusetts and across the nation and a proposal has come forward and servile and now was actually passed in.
WBUR
"danielle allen" Discussed on WBUR
"Of the other arguments that deal made this week is that just as Donald Trump may be pulling Republicans towards a Trump based Republicanism. He thought that Democratic candidates in the Commonwealth would be pulled to progressive by the National Party, and there might not be appetite for that. Here. We have three Democratic candidates in the race right now. Danielle Allen Ben Downing, Sonia Change gears. Any merit in your mind to that argument, and should they run against deal ignored Deal Cheer deal on as he tries to Primary A yet undeclared Charlie Baker. Well, you know, this is And of course, this is where I always have to remind people that I don't speak for the Navy or anybody else. Um, this argument that, um the Democrats are going to be pulled to the far left is just in Maine. Especially in the age of you know, we keep forgetting the leader of the Democratic Party is Joe Biden. Probably one of the most centrist Democrats, uh, of his time and of the past 40 years. And what the Republicans there's two things the way the Republicans talk about this, but I think people should be alert to one is to say yes, sure, Biden is okay, but the Democratic Party is becoming socialists and all and then all of the buzzwords committee race theory in All that other stuff. Um, the other is to go back to what he said about the deal set up with the election. You should really always be careful when they say, Well, I accept that Joe Biden is the president. Because what they really mean is well. I know that that's how the process played out, and I can't help it. I don't like it. It's a way of signaling to the to the real, you know, fanatical base, and unfortunately, Blue State Republicans are sometimes even crazier than their red state counterparts. Because they feel like a besieged minority. That's really a way of saying no, I don't really accept this. Um you know, we can do Trumpism in New England. But I think the other thing to count on here is that Charlie Baker Has avoided something that's happened in American politics, which is negative partisanship, which is people just voting against the other party, And I think any Republican who runs other than Baker is probably going. It will certainly run into the negative partisanship that Um, you know, the people in people in Massachusetts are just not going to accept the Republican governor That doesn't look like Charlie Baker or Phil Scott. Or, you know Larry Hogan, or that handful of Republicans. So let's pick that up there and let's use that as our way to pivot into the pandemic because we we talked with Anthony Brooks on Air yesterday. W. Byars, Anthony Brooks. He cited polling data from The data was late March. I think it was released on April 1st that showed that well over 60% of the state still feels like we're headed in the right direction. The the pandemic is a big piece of that any direction, Renee that we're headed in right now, Things have gotten better objectively. But vaccines disparities exist. We had 99 2 cases new cases in the Commonwealth yesterday. The numbers are creeping up or at 20.467 day average of positivity up from 0.42% reported Tuesday. Hospitalizations and deaths are thankfully low. So overall the grade for Baker at this point on handling the pandemic in your mind. Give him a solid C Only because only because I think the rollout of the vaccines was so botched, um, that it delayed things for a lot of people. I don't think that the effort was made to reach out to communities that were disproportionately affected early enough. You know you had the whole point was to meet people where they were, and that wasn't done. Sending people down to rent them or to Gillette was not going to cut it. If you lived in Chelsea didn't have a way to get there. So I think he he blew that, frankly. Has it gotten better? Yes, it's gotten better. Massachusetts is one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. You know, our cases are still relatively glow, though creeping up, Um But, you know, I'm gonna remember the whole year of Charlie Baker and the pandemic, not just what's happened in the last few months. Alright, So Tom, I appreciate rennais comment. I am for a minute here going to focus on what's happened in the last couple months, though, and I'm really going to go for the last few weeks. So this week, the dean of Brown School of Public Health, Dr Ashish Jha. Talked to NPR about the Delta variant theory is the Delta Variant is the most contagious variant of this virus we have seen throughout the entire pandemic, and there's some evidence that it's also more deadly if you are infected with it. It's significant because it does get a lot of people say very quickly and we need to get people vaccinated and the fact that it has moved this fast means that a lot of communities and a lot of people who are still quite vulnerable to this virus. Now we do Tom have high vaccination rates here in the Commonwealth and in the region, But this thing is for real, and it is quickly becoming or will be predicted to be the dominant strain where it isn't. Um are are you worried? Are you just watching and do we have our infrastructure in place to deal with? Something new and militias. That's a spin off of the old versions of this this awful virus. Well, I mean, I'm always worried until a pandemic is, you know, declared over and we can kind of plant a flag on top of it. Um, but, you know, I'm in a relative sense. I'm not worried and part of the reason I'm not worried as I followed, Dr Jehu. Hey, we've got him here in Rhode Island. You can't have them. Um, you know here we had and we took him. We we took them. We We recruited him away. So he's an ocean stater now and you know if you follow Dr John on Twitter, for example, he's a really study source of Calm and reasoned advice and that advice always boils down to one thing, which is just go get vaccinated. Um, You know, the delta variant is very dangerous if you're not vaccinated. Um yes, you can acquire it. It can be a breakthrough infection, but it will likely either be asymptomatic or mild. And you know that it's almost becoming this kind of frustrated, scream it from the rooftops of you know, what are you waiting for? To get vaccinated even though our vaccination rates in New England or high it's not high enough, and I'm not sure what Charlie Baker or Dan McKee or Phil Scott or anybody else can do about that. At some point, people just have to kind of get off their butts and say, I'm going to go get a shot. They're so literally. They're giving them away in Rhode Island everywhere here. So, Renee, I'm going to turn to you because we're going to go to hubs in a second. But before we do, and just briefly, you have been saying on our air for weeks. This pandemic isn't over. It's over. For whom? So as the cases tick back up when we get this delta variant, I'm wondering, Have you been thinking sort of Welcome to the party. I saved you a seat. No, I'm not gloating. I'm not. You know, I would have been thrilled to have been wrong about that. But when you're hearing things like 130 people died in Maryland last month, and every single one of them was unvaccinated. Um, you know, that's really upsetting. You know, there's something so frustrated about the fact that we, you know, it's like it's like the old that old TV show. We have the technology to save people and people aren't doing it. We're stuck at about 48%. Vaccination rate right now in the country That's simply not going to cut it. And now we've got this variant going around. That's so much more infectious and dangerous. Not to mention that the longer the virus circulates you give the opportunity for even more variants that could be even more deadly than the delta very in. You know, I'm not even blaming Charlie Baker for them. I'm not. I think everyone is trying to figure out a way to get people to get vaccinated and it's just not working. They've tried incentives. And it's just not doing it. The incentives should be to save your life and the lives we were loved ones. And if that's not enough to convince people that I'm not really sure what is All right. We've got on the other side of this congresswoman Diana Presley. But I do want to take a brief minute to do our huh? Bubs, those local stories or events that caught our attention this week, Tom. What? How about did you bring us?.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"danielle allen" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"With Dan Ray. Ongoing, easy. Boston's news radio. Thank you very much, Madison. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome, Everyone. It is Martin Luther King dancing, national holiday and many of you I know. Had today off from work, But I am here. This is live. This is thistles, WBZ. My name's Dan Ray. And this is night side as Madison. Rogers has just explained Mattis and Indian Watkins. Handling the newsroom duties tonight and Andrew Rich is in for Rob Brooks, who is taking the holiday off as well. And so I'm here you're there, and we have several topics that would like to explore with you tonight on I can only explore them with you. If you join into the conversation during the second hour tonight, we're going to focus on the life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King will be talking with his niece, Dr Alveda King. She will join us at the top of the The nine o'clock hour, which of course means right after the nine o'clock news cast on and we'll also be joined later during that hour by Horace Cooper of Project 21. Explore what What Doctor King might be doing today He would have been I think is he would've been 92 years of age. If I'm doing my math correctly, it's it's amazing to think that A taste for those of us who remember the assassinations of the 19 sixties. It's amazing to realize that It will be 60 years since John Kennedy was assassinated within a couple of years from now. On A, says Robert F. Kennedy junior, and hopefully we will never see a spate of assassinations like that again in our country. But those of us who experienced the 19 sixties and the tumbled I think one of the things of course, we learned was the horror of the 19 sixties but also the resiliency of this country and that we were able to pull out of that horrific time. We're in another time. I think where For a lot of people are losing faith. But that's part of the reason I do. This show is to try to encourage people to keep the faith that keep the faith in the the United States of America. This country has been through a lot. Generations of material as well. Talk about Dr King's legacy of 10 and then Ad. 10 o'clock at rather at nine. Excuse me. And then at 10 o'clock tonight, we'll talk for an hour from 9 to 10 and then a 10 o'clock tonight. We will have back a guest who we've had on before. Um Professor Gregory Stahler, Hey, is a business school professor at Boston University. But they called the question School of business, which is a And up becoming business school. He himself is a graduate of Harvard Business School and he's expert on China. We're going to talk a lot tonight a little bit later on about what role will China have in relation to the United States and particularly in relation to the New. Um, The new administration. Joe Biden on Wednesday becomes the 46, the president of the United States, and hopefully that goes without a hitch. Without a problem of any sort. We'll talk about that later on this week, but first hour tonight, I'd like to pick up on a piece. That was in the The Boston Herald. Lisa Kosinski, I was like toe credit the the folks from the printed medium when they write a piece that we use as kind of a Conversation point. Charlie Baker's fundraising picks up as the 2022 governor's race looms. Will the 2022 governors races still Um, in reality a year and a half away, But a Zoe found months can pass weeks turn into months. Months turned into years pretty quickly so at least because Kaczynski in your article in the Herald Which I think was on Saturday, but it may have appeared in the papers on Sunday. It's it's dated January, 16th Saturday. Made notice of the took notice of the fact that Governor Baker brought into his campaign coffers $165,419 in December. I always had this Don't understand that we get to those odd numbers. I mean, if somebody gives you nine bucks or somebody I don't know. Whatever that is up dramatically. From what Hey, had raised The month before. In November, the governor raised $885. So This amount of money the $165,000 in December. The most that he's raised in a single month in over two years, got to go back prior to the The November 2 2018 election now The question is, is this an indication that the governor is going to run for a third term? I'm pretty convinced that That after all of this, Governor Baker probably is going to say Hey, Two terms is quite enough, but I could be wrong and I'd love to hear from those of you who either agree or disagree. Ironically, last month The governor's hall, which was a lot $165,419 was eclipsed just by a few $100 by about $500 by his lieutenant governor. Um, she raised Karen Polito raised $165,944. I'm beginning to wonder they might have had some some joint fundraising activities because those those numbers are pretty close. Well. Ironically, the lieutenant governor has a campaign war chest of nearly $2 million.1.9 million dollars. That is more than three times. Governor Baker's political war chest, which is a little less than $600,000. Now, there are no Democrats who have announced as yet at least substantial Democrats as a political science professor. From Harvard. Who raised a lot of money. December she raised that woman's name is Danielle Allen. She raised $136,000. And then there's another democratic. Yes, I don't know. I've never heard of this fellow Scot Corey. His campaign is rolling along. He loaned himself $20 last month, so I don't think he's going to represent much of a threat. So what I'd like to talk about tonight is, uh, I know that there are people out there who has strong feelings towards Governor Baker one way or the other on I'd like to give an opportunity to him. Tell us what you think. And do you think Charlie Baker deserves a third term? Should he run for a third term? And if he did run for a third term, which you support him? Because if he runs for a third term, I'm sure he will be unopposed. And Karen Polledo certainly is not going to run against him on. I don't know that any other Republican would take him on. If he did run for a third term. Would you vote for him again? Especially if you voted for him before? So, ah, Bunch of questions. Little local politics here the first hour to get us going on this Monday night. This very chilling Monday night is.
COVID-19: What You Need to Know
Coronavirus testing must double or triple before U.S. can safely reopen, experts say
"Corona virus is still overwhelming the American healthcare system. But here at the start of a new week there is a growing focus on recovery and what it would take to get us out of the house back to work back to school. Back to shaking hands again. A panel of four dozen economists social scientists lawyers and ethicists agree now. The country must dramatically increased testing before any reopening can safely occur. It's all part of what this bipartisan. Blue Ribbon panel calls a roadmap to pandemic resilience. Danielle Allen is a lead author and she joins us now from Harvard's Shafran Center for Ethics Doctor Allen. What's involved here so big picture is we need a massive ramp-up of testing tracing unsupported isolation so finding people who are positive for coveted tracing their contacts warning their context making sure they get tested when people have to go into quarantine or be isolated retreated. They'd be supported There's job protection that care packages yet access to countries and so forth during that period of isolation what does it mean to ramp up like that it means go really big It means five million tests a day. Not where we've been which is more about four hundred thousand two week right since really talking about big ramp up. Its moment for Candu America to really show up and missile to work. It almost sounds like you're describing a Marshall Plan for the United States. You can think of it as a Marshall Plan you could also think of it as Eisenhower's highway infrastructure Building all those roads reds across the country and this is really going to take. Everybody said we need the federal government but as for state governments and there's a role for city and county leaders and officials so at the end of the day. Contact tracing is going to be something happens on a local level and this is a lot bigger than say just getting everyone's temperature taken at the door before they walk into the office. This is bigger than that. This is about a disease containment disease suppression so really. It's about identifying who has the infection so that they can be treated and isolated prior to spreading it. One of the biggest challenges with Kobe is the number of people who are asymptomatic carriers so estimates are ranging Hard to zero in on a number but twenty to forty percents of people who have the virus are asymptomatic as one of the things. We've all been really surveying our heads against is the fact that the guidance instill that tests should just be symptomatic people. That means you've got a whole lot of people out there spreading virus around. We haven't been able to do anything about it so far. It's been about three months since the country's been living with Corona virus and we've tested one percent of the population. Is this doable? It's absolutely terrible. I mean it's an interesting thing that everybody's worried it's doable. The question is not whether it is just. How is it doable? That sequestering should be asking and they're really two parts to the how so there's an existing supply chain for testing and has a lot of choke points even with its existing choke points it could definitely ramp up capacity so with the existing supply chain of people who make swabs people who do the processing of tasks and so forth. We ought to be able to get up to two million a day if we organize it. Well if we kick in with some serious coordination driven by the Federal Government and federal procurement in addition though there's an innovation pathway to scaling up even further so one of the biggest choke points is really just swabs go up people's noses and the fact that when you stick swaps up people's noses. Everybody involved has to personal protective equipment. P. p. e. A mattress gets to be a really bad complicated enterprise. The good news is that just this past week. Rutgers was approved for a test and there are other spin tests in the work so we ought to be able to have a way of doing testing. Doesn't require P P. I'm a match and permit a pathway to ramp up but again that's GonNa need. Investment in coordination from the Federal Government's. Take those things that are technologically possible and real already and scale them up to the level of mass production and mass distribution speaking of investment. How much is this going to cost? Well when we think about costs let's start by remembering what the current situation is costing us so collective social distancing collected quarantine is costing US three hundred and fifty billion dollars a month. Okay got him over that three hundred fifty billion a month and we see the massive unemployment numbers. What will this cost fifteen billion a month? Okay so over two years of doing this. You can imagine that we'd have to spend somewhere between a hundred and three hundred billion so hundred to three hundred billion over two years as opposed to what we're currently losing three hundred and fifty billion a month's