Effectively Wild Episode 421: How Much Money Should Players Make?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss the impact of extensions on the players’ share of baseball’s record revenues.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't have to change yourself from me |
| 0:05.0 | But you might want to change yourself from me |
| 0:10.0 | And all of my strengths is into winner |
| 0:16.0 | So why don't you share a little one? |
| 0:21.0 | So why don't you share a little one? |
| 0:26.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 421 |
| 0:29.0 | of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus |
| 0:33.0 | presented by the baseballreference.com Play Index |
| 0:36.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller |
| 0:39.0 | How are you? |
| 0:41.0 | Good, how are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Okay |
| 0:43.0 | Do you have any observations to make? |
| 0:47.0 | Nope |
| 0:48.0 | No |
| 0:49.0 | Okay |
| 0:50.0 | So I wanted to talk about a |
| 0:54.0 | an article that Ken Rosenthal wrote yesterday |
| 0:57.0 | about extensions and what they have done to baseball's salary structure |
| 1:03.0 | and the distribution of wealth or earnings between owners and players |
| 1:09.0 | So he uses the new Chris Archer extension with the raise to point out that |
| 1:16.0 | the game is trending younger in terms of earnings and production |
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