Effectively Wild Episode 165: The Worst Team to Work For/Baseball Without Outfield Fences/When to Give Up on Top Draft Picks/Would Mariano Rivera Make an All-Time Team?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about the worst team to work for, what baseball would look like without outfield fences, when it’s okay to give up on high draft picks, and how Mariano Rivera compares to top starting pitchers.

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0:00.0	I have so many questions to ask you.
0:05.8	Good morning and welcome to episode 165 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball
0:12.1	prospectus.
0:13.5	You know what?
0:14.5	I'm not even going to say where I am anymore, because you didn't say yesterday and I
0:17.2	liked how that sounded.
0:18.8	I am Benlyn Berg with me as always.
0:21.4	Is Sam Miller?
0:22.4	Thanks, Ben.
0:23.4	It's great to be here.
0:25.9	In Eroldus Chapman News, Eroldus Chapman is a closer in Kyle Loish news.
0:32.0	Kyle Loish is still unsigned, but we know how much money he wanted.
0:35.8	He was asking for a three-year, $45 million deal one week into spring training.
0:42.4	And now he's hoping to match the two-year, $26.5 million deal that Ryan Dempster signed.
0:48.1	So those are two people that we have talked about a lot.
0:50.3	This winter, that is the latest with them.
0:53.6	We are going to answer your emails and tweets today, which we have put off for a couple
0:59.7	days, so we could have some good guests on.
1:03.0	So let's get to it.
1:05.4	I'll start with one that we just received, because it's related to yesterday's Dan Evans
1:11.4	interview.
1:12.9	Michael Shive tweeted, if the phone rang and it was the Marlins, do you take the job?
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