Good morning and welcome to effectively wild the baseball

perspective daily podcast. The date is August 7th. The episode is 15 and your

hosts as always are as usual because I missed an episode and therefore we'll

never be able to say as always are Ben Lindbergh in Manhattan and Sam

Miller in Long Beach. Good morning Sam. Good morning Ben. What's your topic? My

topic is my amazing streak of not missing any podcasts ever. What's your real

topic? Real topic is cliffly and my real topic is Ben Sheets. Oh okay wow

okay. All right two starters. I'll start with I'll start with my starter. So I'm

gonna just talk around cliffly for a bit and then we'll be done. I I guess the

the peg is that you know cliffly was put on waivers as all players are and he

was claimed as many players are and then he was not moved during the period

where the Phillies could have worked out a trade and what's interesting to me is

that before we heard there was a claim there were reports that baseball

executives expected him to go unclaimed entirely and for you know for the

past few days it's really been odd to me to see how different people's

reactions to the situation have been. I read a lot of people noting how

courageous the Dodgers were to put a claim in when they might get stuck with

cliffly's contract and then the flip side is that in fact the Phillies didn't

want to stick them with this contract. So it's weird to me the whole thing is

weird where we just don't really have any idea what cliffly's actual value is the

idea being that 29 teams were according to baseball executives poised to let

him go through waivers because they didn't want to get stuck with a contract

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