Effectively Wild Episode 120: Quantifying PED Effects/Best Farm Systems in Baseball/Roleplaying Trade Talks

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about how much steroids help, the best farm systems in baseball, and how they’d try to negotiate a hypothetical trade.

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0:00.0	Hi, Ben.
0:01.0	Hi.
0:02.0	Welcome, Ben, to episode 120 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus.
0:17.6	You are Ben Lindbergh in New York, New York.
0:19.3	I am.
0:20.3	Still.
0:21.3	Yes.
0:22.3	I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California.
0:23.3	We are here with email Wednesday.
0:25.4	We have some good emails and some good ones that we probably won't even get to.
0:29.5	So thank you to the people who asked questions that we won't have time to get to, but we have
0:35.1	some things to talk about.
0:37.5	So are you ready for me to read an email to you?
0:39.7	Yes.
0:40.7	Please.
0:41.7	All right.
0:42.7	So this one is, well, this one, okay, so this is from a gentleman named Aaron who says,
0:50.6	I'd like Ben to play GM of the Diamondbacks and Sam to play GM of the White Socks.
0:55.5	I'd like you to act as the GM, not try to emulate the actual GM.
1:00.0	Now, negotiate and finalize a trade centered around Justin Upton for Chris Sale.
1:06.2	And I just want to note that I think that this is a great idea for an exercise.
1:14.5	And I think that I would be willing to take on such challenges in the future.
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