Effectively Wild Episode 256: The Trade Deadline in Review
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2013
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss their favorite and least-favorite deadline moves, the biggest upgrades, teams that should have sold, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The user! |
| 0:03.0 | The user! |
| 0:09.0 | The who? |
| 0:11.0 | The her! |
| 0:13.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 256 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast |
| 0:19.0 | from baseball perspectives. |
| 0:21.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh joined as always by Sam Miller. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi! |
| 0:25.0 | Hello. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm wondering what your A-Rod conference level is |
| 0:29.0 | on this Thursday morning? |
| 0:31.0 | Well, it's not good. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm trying to figure out if he were to appeal whether the Yankees would play along, |
| 0:40.0 | or if the Yankees would conspire to keep him off the field anyway. |
| 0:45.0 | But I would say my confidence level is about 1.5%. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, that sounds about right now. |
| 0:54.0 | Down from, what was it, 15, what I asked you a couple days ago? |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, and down from 80 or 90, a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, falling fast. |
| 1:05.0 | So we weren't sure exactly what to talk about today, but we spent the day writing about trades |
| 1:11.0 | and waiting for trades to happen. |
| 1:14.0 | In the end, not all that many of them did. |
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