Effectively Wild Episode 1641: The Confounding Free-Agent Market

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about why the free-agent market has been both slow-moving and fairly lucrative for the players who’ve signed, the White Sox inking closer Liam Hendriks, whether the White Sox are the American League’s front runners, the latest report that the season will start on time, napping, MLB’s plans for fans […]

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0:00.0	Then you're gone for days on in and here we go again
0:07.0	Here we go again
0:12.0	You're sending me mixed messages
0:16.0	Mixed messages that I can bring through
0:20.0	Where the heart lies
0:22.0	Which messages coming truly from you
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1641 of Effectively Wild
0:33.0	A fan graph space full podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:36.0	I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan graph and I joined as always by Ben Lundberger of the Ringer
0:40.0	Ben, how are you?
0:41.0	I'm doing well, I'm kind of confused by this offseason I think
0:45.0	I really understand free agency this year
0:48.0	In some ways it's been what we feared or expected
0:51.0	In another ways it really hasn't
0:53.0	This is prompted by the latest signing
0:56.0	One of the highest profile signings we've seen so far
0:59.0	The White Sox signed closer Liam Hendrix to a contract that
1:04.0	It's kind of hard to define really
1:06.0	It's sort of a strangely structured contract
1:08.0	But I guess it's most accurate to say it's a three year 54 million dollar deal
1:14.0	But there is a club option for the fourth year
1:17.0	And so the way it works is that there's a club option
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