Good morning and welcome to episode 354 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective. This is our penultimate episode of the year. I am Ben Lindberg, joined by Sam Miller.

How was your holiday? Sleepy. Sleepy? You are sleepy now? Currently, moment. Well, I thought that we could

do a baseball, a 2013 time capsule episode. So I have selected the 10 stories from this season that I

think I would put in the baseball time capsule if I want to someday look back at the season and remember

the stories that were, I guess, in the news the most or seem the most significant. Not necessarily

the stories I am most interested in. In some cases, I was sick of them as soon as I heard about them,

but I will name my 10 and there are several that I think that I felt bad about not including.

So maybe you will have some ideas for what I have left off and what I should not have left off.

Maybe I will. I actually went back and looked at Effectively Wild episode titles to try to remember

what the stories were. And mostly I think they were about three men in fields and four men out

fields and baseball and ice. Did you go back and listen to Effectively Wild intro sounds?

No, I mean I meant all along to put those in a spreadsheet somewhere so I could remember what they

were and not reuse them, but I never did that. In turn. Yeah, in turn. And I guess we should

mention since we did the podcast about Masahiro Tanaka recently that the news came out while we

were on our little break that he will be posted and teams will have 30 days to negotiate with him

starting today. So right now MLB trade rumors readers who were pulled think that there is a 39.2

percent chance that he will be a New York Yankee. Does that sound about right to you?

It does not sound about right to me. No. Lower. Much lower. No, not. I mean I might say the Yankees

are still the most likely, but I would think so. 39% seems quite high to me. It does seem high.

They were. Who's your runner up? Who's your who gets the second highest in your in your view?

Gosh, I don't know. I mean to me it seems like they need him most or they could benefit from him

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