Where's the money you signed for here? Do you think the biggest issue teams have with you is is injury or character issues from what you

I know it could be

Good morning, and welcome to episode 144 of effectively wild the daily podcasts from baseball prospectus.com

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. We're joined today by Paul Sports to talk about the Philadelphia Phillies and after that

Pete Barrett will talk to Jim Salisbury of CSN

Philly

How are you guys doing?

Okay, great. Oh, it's good. Thanks for coming back Paul

Not a problem. I was wondering if I can get you know co-hosting credit kind of on the logo

I don't know if your names are on the logo, but you're at some point. I should be on that into that you're

Featured player. I think you're like Jay Moore and his one season on SNL

So

So Paul the Phillies I believe led the majors in wins in 2011

They're very expensive team and yet they're probably it seems to me not going to be a very good team or at least

I don't get the sense of people expect them to be a very good team

Is there a lesson here that that other teams can learn or is this just a pretty simple story about cycles?

I think it is a decent story about cycles

It wouldn't this be best case scenario of what Houston was trying to do when they kept

You know that obviously again best case scenario because they started with so many stars

But they're kind of trying to keep it together and I think even if they are not that good this year

But they're kind of good and say maybe there's another big injury like there was with Halliday

They'll say okay. Well, hey, we had another injury, but we can go again and they'll probably put off the

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