Effectively Wild Episode 168: Projections for the Yankees and Blue Jays/If the Amateur Draft Were an Auction/Lifetime Contracts for Generational Talents

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about PECOTA’s projections for the Yankees and Blue Jays, how the amateur draft and free agency would work in an auction format, and whether teams should offer players like Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg $100 million lifetime contracts after drafting them.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 168 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts from
0:12.1	baseballperspectives.com.
0:13.1	I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, Ben.
0:15.2	Have you noticed that maybe I don't know, 50 or 100 episodes ago, I quit fighting the
0:20.8	good morning thing that you do?
0:23.5	You mean you stopped saying good morning, simultaneously or training?
0:27.9	No, I stopped saying good evening.
0:30.0	Oh right, you stopped the good morning, good evening.
0:33.2	Yeah, no, I didn't.
0:34.8	I didn't either. I just noticed it like this, this moment.
0:38.5	Interesting.
0:39.3	We can change.
0:40.5	Things do change.
0:43.1	All right, so it's email Wednesday.
0:45.6	Yeah, before we start, I have a very quick story.
0:50.8	I have, I have mentioned on the podcast before, I think the 24 hour
0:55.8	diner that is a block from my apartment without which I probably would not survive, because
1:03.6	I have very little initiative when it comes to food preparation.
1:07.6	So tonight, my girlfriend and I went to eat at the 24 hour diner.
1:11.8	I have never known the 24 hour diner not to be open, except for a few days during Hurricane
1:17.2	Sandy.
1:18.2	But tonight, it was closed so that's over.
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