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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild 434: An Awful Lot of Listener Emails

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about must-watch players, breaking news, uniform numbers, Billy Hamilton, Mike Trout, and more.

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 434 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts

0:24.7

of the most well-prespected, presented by the baseballreference.com play index.

0:29.2

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined once more in the flesh, the prodigal podcaster Sam Miller.

0:36.0

Howdy. Welcome back. Thanks Ben. We've missed you.

0:41.7

Yeah, apparently it took a lot of people to film a lot of very distinguished people to film my

0:48.3

seat. It did up to four at one time. Yeah, sometimes, yeah, sometimes it feels like I'm doing

0:56.0

four-fifths of the work. That's not true. It never feels that way. You're the one who's always

1:01.4

doing the work. There were some updates in ongoing Effectively Wild stories that we have been

1:07.8

tracking that you may have missed while you were on your trip. Oh yeah. Oh, I'm eager to hear.

1:13.6

I hope that there's some Albers web news. That is the first item on the agenda.

1:18.7

I was reading all the foreign newspapers trying to get my Albers web news fix, but I'm

1:23.9

all talking about Ukraine. So we did have a game finished by Ryan Webb and there were no games

1:31.3

finished by Matt Albers. So Webb has now narrowed his lead or Webb has now narrowed Albers's lead

1:38.7

to it's now 83 to 77 in the race to have the most games finished ever without a save. So that

1:48.0

was exciting. Uh-huh. The other news is that Oscar Tiberis changed agencies again.

1:56.3

Didn't we? I don't even remember this. We talked about

2:00.3

that. He changed agencies so many times last year. I think it was, um, he changed, he changed

2:08.5

agents four times between last January and last September. So this is now a fifth agency changed

2:20.0

since since last January. For a player who has no no negotiations to do, I mean, he can't,

2:28.0

he like legally can't negotiate basically unless he wants to sign a long extension. Yeah,

2:34.3

or get that like lucrative, uh, like, I don't know what is it, like classic baseball card.

2:41.2

Like is classic the company that did minor league cards. Anyway, but yeah, it's one of one of

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