Effectively Wild Episode 342: Should Teams Stop Spending?/Industry Theories About the Transaction Spree

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk about the idea that trying to win is costing teams money, then discuss what the industry says about this week’s transaction activity.

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0:00.0	Wake up, stop spending! Stop spending, slap-speaking, slap-speaking, slap-speaking, stop spending!
0:04.6	Stop spending, stop spending! Stop spending, stop spending!
0:08.0	And stop spending!
0:09.1	Ackmuff!
0:09.4	Stomp-ing!
0:10.6	Good morning and welcome to episode 342 of Effectively Wild,
0:16.7	the daily podcast from Baseball Prospectus.
0:19.2	Hi, I'm Ben Lindberg, joined by Sam Miller,
0:22.9	not quite as much to talk about today.
0:25.2	I guess this was kind of the refactory period
0:28.4	after Tuesday, Paul Kenerko and Kelly Johnson,
0:33.6	pretty much the only signings today.
0:35.0	So maybe we will circle back for a few minutes
0:39.9	and talk about Hanigan and Gentry,
0:43.1	as we said we might yesterday,
0:44.4	but before we do that, I wanted to bring up
0:49.9	a couple articles.
0:52.8	The first one, did you read Neil Demas' article
0:57.0	at Sports Center?
0:58.5	I did.
0:59.4	Okay, so we had Neil on a few weeks ago
1:02.6	to talk about the Brave's ballpark story
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