Effectively Wild Episode 416: Listener Emails: One Miguel Cabrera, Many Mike Trouts

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about the Miguel Cabrera contract extension, bullpen usage, productive at-bats, multiple Mike Trouts, and more.

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0:00.0	After the 2015 season, you're a free agent. How much do you would you like to stay in Detroit?
0:05.0	How much? Too much. You like it here? I love it here.
0:10.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 416 of Effectively Wild,
0:14.0	the daily podcast from Baseball Prospectus, presented by the Baseball Reference Play Index.
0:19.0	I am Beth Lindbergh, joined by...
0:21.0	Hi Miller. Hello.
0:23.0	So the season preview series is over.
0:26.0	Today we will do a listener email show, and then next week we'll somehow get back to coming up with our own topics.
0:33.0	I was hoping we might have somebody on to help us preview every minor league affiliate team.
0:38.0	Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
0:41.0	We should probably do some of the top college world series contenders also.
0:46.0	Okay, so we got a bunch of questions here.
0:49.0	I guess we should start with the most topical one.
0:54.0	Eric Hartman asks, can I request a hot take on the Miguel Cabrera extension?
1:01.0	So that was a few hours ago we both had time to heat up our takes.
1:06.0	Do you have a hot one?
1:10.0	I guess I can give you my closest thing to sort of like a hot pondering.
1:19.0	Like a little bit of a hot pondering I guess.
1:22.0	Okay.
1:23.0	It's not that hot though. Do you have one?
1:26.0	I'll try. I'll try.
1:29.0	Let's see.
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