Effectively Wild Episode 374: Baseball’s State of the Union: The BP Rebuttal
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2014
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss Tom Verducci’s suggested ways to make baseball better.
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| 0:00.0 | You can make it better, maybe so much better all the time |
| 0:07.0 | Just a good boy, looking hard |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my way, a little time, a little trouble |
| 0:22.0 | You better day |
| 0:30.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 374 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:35.0 | The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller |
| 0:41.0 | How are you? |
| 0:43.0 | Good, here, I'm here |
| 0:45.0 | Good, that's all I ask of you |
| 0:48.0 | So our discussion the other day about players who took hometown discounts |
| 0:55.0 | You put me on the spot and asked me for some and I failed |
| 1:01.0 | You did |
| 1:03.0 | In our Facebook group, Brady Childs reminded me of the Cliffly deal with the Phillies |
| 1:10.0 | Which sort of qualifies |
| 1:13.0 | I don't know, it was generally agreed that he left money on the table |
| 1:18.0 | But he didn't get it |
| 1:20.0 | But he got a higher average annual value out of it |
| 1:24.0 | He did, yes |
| 1:26.0 | I think holiday on the other hand |
| 1:30.0 | The holiday one was... |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, that one was hard to understand |
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