Effectively Wild Episode 1165: Jeff Passan Diagnoses Baseball’s Broken Market
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a few recent trade demands (or non-demands), then bring on Yahoo Sports MLB columnist Jeff Passan to talk about what’s behind baseball’s slow-moving labor market, who and/or what is to blame for the sport’s present economic stalemate, and what can be done to avert disaster. Lastly, Ben provides a brief addendum on baseball’s most and least productive names.
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Audio outro: The Raconteurs, "Salute Your Solution"
Link to Jeff Passan’s article on baseball’s backward economics
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| 0:00.0 | In the bow now, it's so big and bad, don't you know? |
| 0:05.4 | My eyes and ears will they won't make a sound. |
| 0:11.6 | In a dream, Jack fell appeared and told me, |
| 0:15.3 | You must have you in the way, |
| 0:17.9 | A dream, you make and land like hell. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Repsud 1,165 of Effectively Wilding Fang Reps |
| 0:27.2 | Baseball Podcast brought to you by our Patrons, |
| 0:29.6 | Fortesimed Jeff Sullivan of Fanggraphs.com joined us. |
| 0:33.6 | I guess recently, always again, joined us mostly always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer. |
| 0:38.2 | Hello Ben. Hello. How are you? I'm doing all right. Great. |
| 0:41.4 | Okay, so moving on from that with the pleasant breeze out of the way, |
| 0:44.4 | we will have on this podcast for almost all of this podcast, we have an, |
| 0:49.2 | I think, delightful conversation with you all who's Jeff Passand about what is going on in |
| 0:53.9 | in baseball's market right now and about the economics of the game. |
| 0:57.4 | And if you just rolled your eyes or fell asleep at the mention of the word, |
| 1:01.0 | economics, I promise it's better than that. Jeff swears it's great. |
| 1:04.3 | And we talked for about now. But for that, I don't know if you have anything you wanted to |
| 1:08.8 | talk about that isn't about baseball's marketplace and the economics. |
| 1:12.0 | I think that's the only thing being discussed. But just as long as we're talking about |
| 1:16.2 | baseball and not that we have a couple sort of trade demands, pseudo trade demands. |
| 1:20.8 | I don't know if they're quite demands, but you know, trade demand is a general term. |
| 1:24.4 | We have Josh Harrison. He posted a statement to the athletic, which is I guess, |
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