Effectively Wild Episode 351: Life-Changing Lessons from Recent Transactions

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss recent trades and signings, focusing on moves by the Indians, White Sox, and Diamondbacks, Kevin Towers’ changing approach to building a bullpen, and the reliever market.

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0:00.0	Happy Spender, spend a little time with me.
0:15.0	Good morning and welcome to Episode 351 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseballperspectus.com.
0:23.5	I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Saint Miller.
0:28.0	Do you have any pre-episode banter?
0:33.0	No, I was on Will Leach's podcast earlier today.
0:37.0	No, you're bantering right now.
0:39.0	No, well, I was just going to explain that I got a lot of banter out of my system.
0:45.0	His whole show is largely banter.
0:48.0	It's a very, it's a bantery show.
0:50.0	It's very comfortable to be on his show because it's...
0:54.0	Even when he steers it in various directions, you just feel like bantering.
0:59.0	It feels like good banter.
1:01.0	So if anybody wants to check out my banter...
1:04.0	If anyone wants to check out my World Series preview on Will Leach's podcast, that's still there too.
1:14.0	Yeah, I felt much more comfortable on Will Leach's podcast than I did on my own.
1:18.0	We should probably just both go on Will Leach's podcast once in a while and that's it.
1:24.0	Okay, so transactions, Sam, teams are making them.
1:31.0	And we've been analyzing them.
1:35.0	We've been writing about them.
1:38.0	I figured that we could catch up on a few because you've written some interesting things about transactions.
1:46.0	And I know you hate to talk about things that you've written.
1:50.0	But not as much as you hate to come up with an original topic.
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