Effectively Wild Episode 369: Clearing the Listener Email Backlog

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss Bobby Abreu, then answer listener emails about pushing PEDs, the best Barry Bonds stats, walk-up music, players becoming GMs, and more.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 369 of Effectively Wild.
0:29.9	The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus, I'm Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. How are you?
0:36.8	Happy to be here. So we're going to do a supplementary listener email show as we
0:45.1	mentioned was a possibility last week because we got so many good emails and if we don't answer
0:50.8	them now they will just disappear into our inboxes. So before we start on emails,
0:59.9	I wanted to ask you about Bobby Breu and basically my question is how good a player has to be
1:10.8	in a winter league to peak your interest. So presumably if someone had said to you at the beginning
1:19.2	of this winter, would you like to sign Bobby Breu to a minor league deal? You probably would have
1:27.7	declined, I imagine. But for a minor league deal? Yeah, he earns 800,000 if he breaks camp with
1:35.6	the club. Am I an AL team? No, I guess you're not. You're the Phillies. Yeah, you're in the Phillies
1:46.1	situation. Okay. So do I wait, wait, wait, if I'm the Phillies, is it possible that I'm actually
1:53.4	operating under the presumption that I am an AL team? That's one of the many things I'm wrong
1:59.2	about all the time. That is possible. Yes. If only there was some way to tell.
2:08.4	So Breu will be 40 by opening day. He did not play last season. He did not play much or well in his
2:19.3	last season or really his last two seasons. He wasn't much of a player. So I imagine you would have
2:28.9	said, eh? I mean, you can hand away of any minor league deal and say whatever. Yeah, let's, I mean,
2:37.2	yeah. But the presumption that there's actually a point to bring us that he might become a useful
2:43.4	player. Thank you. Yes. For the purposes of making presumptions, yes. I would hand away
2:49.1	away the presumption. Okay. Or not hand wave. You just said the word hand wave. Yeah. But you
2:55.6	use it in a different way. I just copied it, but I copied it in a different way. So I need to replace
3:01.2	that verb. I would, what did you say to shake a stick at? What did you? What? What verb am I trying to
3:09.2	repeat? I said hand wave, right? We both said hand wave. You said hand wave. You said hand wave
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