And every day we can play on the Milky Way, and get that don't do, then I'll try something new.

Good morning, and welcome to episode 333 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller. I would prefer to pitch for the Giants or Padres.

Did you see the report that Jess Johnson, who just signed with the Padres, called and let the Giants

and Padres know early on that they were his first choices? That would always be my move if I were

a free agent pitcher. I would always want to go there. I guess it's partly because he lives in Las Vegas

and he wants to be close to there, but I don't know. I'm surprised that the Padres haven't had an

even greater advantage in signing free agents, and maybe they have, and it's just that they haven't

wanted to pay for them, but there's so many guys who are coming off a down year or an injury,

or just a flyball pitcher who have reason to want to go there, and the weather's not bad either.

Seems like it would be an advantage.

It is interesting. We always, at least I always wonder why extreme ball parks don't show

advantages with situations like this where you can kind of squeeze extra value out of them,

and the Giants for years complained that their park made it impossible for them to get hitters,

but the flip side would seem to be that it would be really easy to get pitchers, and that

wasn't really the case. They didn't really do very well, getting pitchers that they imported

generally speaking. San Francisco and San Diego would be two of my top three major league cities to

live in too, so that's nice. But it seems fairly transparent for Josh Johnson to go to San Diego.

You have to wonder who's really going to be fooled.

I have wondered that too, because we've gotten to the point now where I don't know whether

general managers are actually fooled by a flyball pitcher doing well in a really big ball park

with the marine layer by the ocean and everything. I don't know whether anyone is still able to

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