Good morning and welcome to episode 372 of Effectively Wild, a daily podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. How are you doing Ben? Ready to record a podcast.

Yeah sorry for making you wait you know or it ever since we crossed into the 300s every episode

when I say the number I feel like that's a famous batting average and then I can't remember who it is

and 372 doesn't 372 sound like one of those runs at 400 at someone made but

it is I like Dimagio's highest average or something. Oh no here it is I found it didn't take long my

second guess. Todd Hilton 2000. Okay good. Yeah so you know nothing happened.

This is that time when nothing happens. Yeah so I don't actually I don't think anything

rises to the level of wanting to talk about it for 20 minutes so I thought we could maybe just

talk about a few things. Okay first I just wanted to know with how much joy I read your David

Price trade proposals. Thank you. You did this with John Carlos Stanton before and they're amazing

they're they're so good and everyone is real but you know what I particularly love about the

David Price ones is that they are not all clear wins for the team that's proposing them.

You know like it's it's they miss they miss you think that you think that fake trade proposals

are always terrible because hometown fans overrate their own prospects or just simply don't want

to give anything up. Usually are most of the ones that I find for these things. But but you

forget that a huge part of what makes these trade proposals amazing is that they are also crazy

just like just directionlessly crazy like they can be wrong in any direction and so sometimes

they wander off like sometimes they they wander off and get on a bus and and end up in Toledo

but sometimes they wander off and get on the bus and end up in Atlanta. You know like that bus can

go anywhere. Yeah there were a few that would be terrible for the team that that proposed them

or the team that the fan who proposed them roots for. So yeah I don't know it's it's I feel kind

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