Good morning and welcome to episode 11 of Effectively Wild, a daily baseball

prospectus podcast. In Manhattan, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach,

California, he is Sam Miller. Sam, we survived the trade deadline and the

Orioles did not heed your advice from yesterday to go all in. No, although

perhaps Dylan Bundy will be traded in a August waiver wire move. It's only a matter

of time now. It's out there. Once the idea is out there, I don't think Baltimore can

help but do something monumentally stupid like that. So what is your topic for

today? Well, my talk is actually going to sound a lot like the topic we did

two days ago, but I want to once again talk about the giants and the Dodgers

because of the action that each team was involved in today. And we're already

recycling material in episode 11. That's not a good sign. I think we've already

recycled my topic for today is Nifhtali Feliz and the sort of checking in on

the the starter to reliever bullpen conversion guys. Now wait a minute, didn't we

talk about that earlier too? Did we we talked very briefly about Java in one

episode, right? Did we go beyond that? We've talked about what we talked about

Chapman in the first episode. And I think at that point we talked about

conversions. I actually when we talked about the Rangers and their plummeting

run differential. We talked about Nifhtali Feliz whether he should go back to the bullpen.

Well, there's new news on the Nifhtali Feliz front. So okay, we're revisiting two

old topics in a slightly new way. Perfect. Okay, which old topic should we go

over again first? Well, I'll start. First I just wanted I want to note

something that I learned. I was looking through the transaction logs of the

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