Effectively Wild Episode 288: The Appeal of Year-to-Year Contracts/Ranking Contenders By Rootability

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss why players don’t choose year-to-year contracts, then rank contending teams by rootability.

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0:00.0	You can expect you're all not with us, and we've only just begun, this will be our yet to long time to come.
0:13.0	Good morning, and welcome to episode 288 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus.
0:20.0	I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. Hello.
0:23.0	Are we to Tommy John's win total yet?
0:27.0	Is it 288 or is it Jim Cutt?
0:30.0	I don't know. If I knew, then you would know the answer to that question.
0:34.0	I would have stated it in a much different tone.
0:36.0	Tommy John, yeah, 288, so yeah, this is it.
0:41.0	All right.
0:43.0	All right.
0:44.0	Made it super underwhelming now that we're here.
0:46.0	This was our goal.
0:47.0	How come we've been talking about this for so long, you and I, about getting to Tommy John's win total?
0:53.0	So all we ever talk about, right?
0:55.0	Yeah, often.
0:57.0	It's like the fourth episode.
0:58.0	That was our goal when we started this podcast to get to...
1:01.0	It seems like a weird goal.
1:03.0	I had a couple follow-ups from yesterday's podcast if you don't have anything else to say.
1:11.0	I have two things to say.
1:13.0	One of which I have to go before you.
1:16.0	If you Google Tommy John, he is not the first result.
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