Hi, this is Bob Costas and a huge part of my baseball upbringing had to do with Stratomatic all the best all you Stratomatic seam heads

Good morning, and welcome to episode 173 of effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball prospectus

I am Ben Lindbergh joining me as always is Sam Miller. Hello, Sam

Why it is a listener email show some of you have sent us emails. We're going to read and answer them

Sam is going to read them. So why don't you start all right? I will so first I want to

Read one from Eric who asked following Jay haps extension

Well, he says I don't think it's a bad deal by any means, but haps is nobody savior or sexy extension candidate on the other hand

I find Alex Anthopolis and his front office to be very smart would it be reasonable to assume he may be better than a fifth starter or

Swingman based solely on the fact that the blue jays are willing to give him such an extension

Financial situations aside would you ever change your view on a player based on how they're valued by a front office?

Did people try and find reasons to think James Loney maybe better than we all think because he signed with the rays

Then if he had signed with the royals or the marlins best wishes friends Eric

Good question and best wishes

Yes, and Eric also asked if we are going to be doing morning podcasts regularly from now on that is not the plan

This is just something that happened a couple days in a row and will happen from time to time

So as for the question

That is something I've thought about and I think it came up either in one of your articles or on a comment on one of your articles

Not too long ago someone asked whether we should take contract into account when we are making. Oh, it was a chat. That's right. Yeah

Whether we should take contract into account when making projections for players and you said you thought it was an interesting idea

And I thought it was an interesting idea also it's kind of hard to

Untangle the contract and the performance and obviously a team can give a player a bad contract

And give him more money than he deserves, but in the same way that I am more optimistic about the player who

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