Effectively Wild Episode 462: The Singleton Extension and the Franchise Player Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss Jonathan Singleton’s extension and promotion, then dissect the first round of ESPN’s Franchise Player Draft.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 462 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball |
| 0:18.9 | Perspectus, presented by the Play Index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. |
| 0:25.9 | I used to play index about five minutes ago. |
| 0:28.6 | But four. |
| 0:29.6 | Not for this, for something else. |
| 0:33.0 | Sometimes I used to play index for this case. |
| 0:35.9 | In this case, I only needed to sort players by career war. |
| 0:41.1 | It just felt like using a spaceship to get to 7-Eleven. |
| 0:49.5 | I felt guilty. |
| 0:50.7 | I felt like I should do a couple of unnecessary steps. |
| 0:54.5 | It was just too easy to ask for play index. |
| 0:59.7 | But that's the great thing about play index. |
| 1:01.7 | It is a spaceship that can go to the grocery store. |
| 1:06.2 | How many spaceships can you know that can go to both the moon, as well as the library. |
| 1:10.8 | That's play index. |
| 1:11.8 | I think you can either one. |
| 1:13.1 | Never complaints. |
| 1:15.0 | Just does what it asks. |
| 1:16.0 | That's true. |
| 1:17.0 | It's true. |
| 1:18.0 | Ben, how are you? |
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