Hello and welcome to effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus. I'm Sam Miller I'm with Ben Lindberg Ben are you there? I'm here and

I'm quite alright if your next question was how am I? My next question is how are

you? I've already answered that one. Let's first before we get to baseball

quickly address the cricket situation. I got three messages, emails, responses to

the cricket situation today. Two were positive. One was neutral merely noting

what we had already established which is that there are crickets and so the pro

cricket group has taken a two-to-one lead and my door is open today but phone

lines are still open and I will continue to monitor the pulse of our listeners.

So we said two pro cricket emails would carry the day and they just they barely

support. It's squeaked by yeah this is gonna be like what we're getting

dangerously close to 538 territory. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be monitoring the

demographics of this and and all of that. Do you want to talk about some baseball?

Yeah why not? Joe Mauer is my topic and Eric Bedard is my topic so why don't you

start with Joe Mauer. Okay so Joe Mauer was placed on waivers which is of

course something that happens to many or most baseball players in August so

that in itself was not remarkable. He was not claimed by any team which also

was not remarkable in that he does have a large long-term contract and

regardless of of what the Dodgers may do these days in most cases when players

are placed on waivers especially with a gigantic contract they do go

unclaimed or at least nothing happens. But there was a considerable amount of

speculation about whether something would happen. People wondered Ken Rosenthal

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