Effectively Wild Episode 1272: Take Money to Make Money?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Trevor Story’s close call, then (9:04) bring on former MLB pitcher Michael Schwimer, the founder and CEO of Big League Advance, to talk about the mechanics and morality of giving money to minor leaguers in exchange for a percentage of their future earnings if they make the majors, why the company was the subject of a now-dropped lawsuit, the dilemma of low minor-league pay, why Michael maintains that BLA is helping players, BLA’s investment model and efforts to predict pitcher injuries, and Michael’s proposed solution to the rising strikeout rate. Lastly, Ben and Jeff review the interview and offer their thoughts on BLA, minor-league pay, and injury prediction.
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Audio outro: Spinal Tap, "Gimme Some Money"
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening people, welcome to the show |
| 0:03.6 | Got some fun here, I want you all to know |
| 0:07.1 | When life and people ring on primal screens |
| 0:10.7 | Got the finger bullets gonna take to make your dreams make it |
| 0:15.5 | No, I'm begging |
| 0:18.9 | I say I'm making |
| 0:22.5 | No, I'm begging to make your dreams make it |
| 0:29.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 12-72 |
| 0:32.7 | Effectively wildly, Fangriff's baseball podcast |
| 0:35.2 | brought to you by our patrons |
| 0:36.5 | Portazone Gesselvin of Fangriff's |
| 0:38.3 | Join us always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer |
| 0:40.3 | Hello Ben |
| 0:41.0 | Hi, you always make that into a question |
| 0:43.5 | The episode number |
| 0:44.8 | For those who don't know behind the scenes |
| 0:46.8 | There is a screen that we're both looking at |
| 0:49.4 | Presumably that does have the episode number |
| 0:52.1 | Of the episodes that we're currently recording |
| 0:54.3 | On it, but you always sound somewhat uncertain |
| 0:58.0 | About whether it is actually that episode or not |
| 1:00.4 | I'm never really sure how I'm gonna say it |
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