Effectively Wild Episode 482: The Astros’ Leaked Trade Talks

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss the significance of the Astros’ leaked internal trade notes.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 482 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from
0:26.3	baseballperspectives.com presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with
0:33.3	Ben Lindbergh and that looks like a 1996 Honda Civic that just drove me. How are you Ben?
0:41.7	Okay, how are you? Pretty good. So anything by the way, go quick. No, don't think so.
0:49.6	So today we're going to talk about the Astros Elite Trade Discussions. The Astros have a,
1:01.8	I don't know how you describe it, they have an online system where they can enter all their trade
1:07.4	discussions so they're easily accessible to everybody in the front office. It's a clever bit of
1:12.8	information management. You can see how it would be really useful. You can see how it would be
1:18.5	kind of useful to be honest. I don't know that this actually seems like the sort of thing that
1:23.6	is quite as useful as many of the other things that technology is used for, but kind of useful.
1:30.2	One of the things that it's very useful for is if you want to hack into their system and find out
1:34.8	what they said about everybody, it's all there for you. Somebody did that. Yeah, I don't even
1:42.8	need to say allegedly that Jeff Luneau acknowledged it. So somebody did this, posted a bunch of
1:49.5	these rumors online deadspin, then did an article about these rumors online, Jeff Luneau, and
1:56.5	did a press conference in which he talked about these rumors being online. So it's all real.
2:03.2	Although according to the Astros, some of the things that were said, according to the Astros,
2:09.2	were quote embellished or completely fabricated. So we're going to talk about some of those.
2:17.5	We're going to talk about, I guess we're going to, well, we'll talk about the bigger issue,
2:21.3	maybe we'll talk about some of the smaller things, but I guess the first question is Ben.
2:26.5	Should we talk about this? Is this responsible for us to talk about this? Is it ethical for us to
2:32.4	be talking about this? Should we feel guilt about talking about this? I don't think so. I said,
2:38.4	some people in various comment sections on various sites criticizing the authors for
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