Yeah, take that, Mr. Volkhoz, on a nice little change-up, and effectively wild-all game.

Good morning, and welcome to episode 261 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectice. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, Ben. How are you?

Okay, sounds windy there. It is windy. It's a little chilly as well.

Yeah. Unless you're hearing the plane.

I'm hearing that also, but I heard, yeah.

So Ben, the Trevor Bauer trade, this is not a topic, but just real quick.

The Trevor Bauer trade, at the time, was generally, I mean,

Kevin Towers was mocked, right, for not getting enough.

Yeah, and for comparing Gregorius to Geter?

Uh-huh, oh well, okay. But basically, nobody thinks that this is a bad deal from Arizona's

perspective, right? No, right?

Yeah, this kind of looks like a big success.

Yeah, when we talked about Amaro's moves the other day,

I talked about how the Diamondbacks moves were believed to be also kind of crazy

over the winter, and now they look a lot less so, at least some of them.

I guess that you could argue that, I mean, you can, I guess the point with both that move and

the up to move were not necessarily that they were going to turn out badly for the Diamondbacks,

but that Towers had more lucrative trade chips than, like, kind of, he cashed in,

that he, like, he sort of undersold those guys.

But that, I think, as we've said here, that seems like a leap to take from our perspective,

and the players he's got, basically, kind of doing okay.

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