Effectively Wild Episode 1324: The Salary Trap
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo’s final winter league stats, the retirement of Ricky Romero, the upside of a slow market, and the anticlimax of a big free-agent signing, then (11:25) bring on Baseball Prospectus director of editorial content Patrick Dubuque to talk about why we know how much players make, how knowing players’ financial information but not owners’ affects the way we talk about baseball, whether opportunity cost still matters, whether casual fans will ever sympathize with players over owners, how to analyze transactions without fixating on salary, talking about money vs. talking about games, finishing Baseball Prospectus 2019, how the Annual has evolved over time, why we still want the paperbound Annual in the digital age, and more.
Audio intro: Prince, "Money Don’t Matter 2 Night"
Audio interstitial: Built to Spill, "Pat"
Audio outro: Sonic Youth, "That’s All I Know (Right Now)"
Link to Patrick’s article
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| 0:00.0 | Money don't matter to no matter |
| 0:04.0 | It's sure that it matters yesterday |
| 0:08.0 | Just when you think you got all that enough |
| 0:12.0 | That's when it all up, it flies away |
| 0:16.0 | That's when you find out that you're better off |
| 0:21.0 | Thinking sure your souls are around |
| 0:25.0 | Money didn't matter yesterday |
| 0:29.0 | And it's sure no matter |
| 0:33.0 | Now |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1324 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:39.0 | It's Fangruf's baseball podcast presented by Eric Petrion's |
| 0:42.0 | More Designed of Soul to the Fangruf's |
| 0:44.0 | going to Zalway's by Beth Lindbergh of The Ringer. Hello, Ben. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, how are you? I'm doing alright. I'm writing a book |
| 0:50.0 | So I'm great every day. We will be joined later in this episode by |
| 0:54.0 | another person who is no longer writing or editing a book |
| 0:57.0 | The abuse of baseball for respect is we will be talking about whether it is ethically and morally right |
| 1:01.0 | to talk about baseball, play your salaries at all, but before we get to Patrick, |
| 1:05.0 | Delayful interview. We have a little bit of banter, I think I can say that we officially |
| 1:09.0 | draw the curtains on Williams' STDOs 2018-2019 Winter Ball season. |
| 1:13.0 | This team has been eliminated from the playoffs in the fifth game of the series |
| 1:17.0 | STDO, who went up one for four with a double in the final game. His playoff campaign ends. |
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