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which way to a star

at last in the quater

Hello and welcome to episode 1726 and effectively wild and baseball podcast

when band graphs brought to you by our Patreon supporters

and Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of band graphs hello Mac

Hello you're trying to pick a time when what we say will not be immediately out

dated during deadline week which is almost impossible so no matter when we

record there were almost certainly be a trade that breaks right after we do but

we will get to it eventually and we will just talk about what we can talk about

what we know so far later in this episode we will be joined by Neil Paine of

538 who will help us break down the deadline how to decide whether you should add

or subtract Neil has come up with a stat called the Doyle number that helps

distill all of those complicated factors down into a single figure which can

kind of give you a guide though as we will discuss there are many other factors

that come into play so we'll talk about that general framework and also some of

the specific teams that are deciding whether to upgrade now or to set their

sights on the long term but we do have some trades and an interesting trade to

talk about Michael Gibbons going to the Reds not that one I mean that's

kind of interesting for Reds fans I guess but the really interesting one which

is done as we record here on Wednesday afternoon is a one for one

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