Effectively Wild Episode 254: Are Wealthy Teams Winning?/Pushing the Trade Deadline Back

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ben and Sam revisit the question of whether wealthy teams are winning (and will win) more, then discuss a proposal to push the trade deadline back.

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0:00.0	I am altering the D-hole, pray I don't alter any further.
0:04.2	Good morning, and welcome to episode 254
0:07.7	of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast
0:10.0	from Baseball Prospectus.
0:11.4	I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.
0:15.5	What's your confidence level today
0:18.3	for a red-playing this season?
0:20.6	I'm gonna just ask you every day
0:22.0	until this is decided one way or another.
0:24.2	Uh, it wasn't a good day.
0:27.3	So, I'd say right now, I feel about 15% confident.
0:34.3	Yeah.
0:35.3	And before today?
0:37.3	Um, it varied from day to day.
0:40.3	But, you know, somewhere between,
0:43.3	like originally when I picked him,
0:45.3	I would have said probably 75-80%,
0:47.3	maybe even higher, maybe 90, maybe 85 or 90.
0:50.3	Yeah.
0:51.3	But you gotta hear, I'm not gonna say it.
0:54.3	I'm not gonna do it.
0:56.3	Maybe I will tomorrow.
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