Effectively Wild Episode 504: Lester, Lackey, and the Red Sox as Sellers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss Boston’s incentives to consider trading two of their top starters on trade deadline day.
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| 0:00.0 | Tray Miss Lonega |
| 0:06.0 | Tray Miss Lonega |
| 0:12.2 | Tray Miss Lonega |
| 0:18.4 | Tray Miss Lonega |
| 0:25.1 | Good morning and welcome to episode 504 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:29.6 | the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectives presented by the Baseball |
| 0:33.8 | Reference.com Play Index. I am Ben Lindbergh, a writer for |
| 0:37.4 | Grantland.com joined as always by Seymilhar, editor-in-chief of Baseball |
| 0:42.4 | Perspectives. Hello. Hi, how are you? Okay, how are you? Pretty good. Got that |
| 0:48.5 | trade deadline fever. Mm, so good. Yeah, so good. Yeah, like most |
| 0:57.4 | fevers. Right. Pretty, pretty slow so far, but the danger about talking about |
| 1:05.7 | trade deadline topics as we record the night before the trade deadlines that by |
| 1:10.2 | the time you're listening to this, who knows what what will have happened. So |
| 1:15.7 | do you want to say anything first? Two quick things. One, I nobody will |
| 1:23.0 | care about this. He's of one person, but I just want to note that my father, |
| 1:28.4 | who is a regular listener of this podcast, is retiring today. Today is his last |
| 1:33.2 | day of work after 43 years of 42 years of incredibly important and |
| 1:37.6 | selfless work. And he taught me everything about baseball. He taught me how to |
| 1:42.7 | like baseball. And he also taught me how to work. So the two things that brought |
| 1:47.4 | me to this podcast are due to him. And as our number of the questions will |
| 1:52.1 | be answered on email Wednesdays. So I just want to note that that I guess |
| 1:57.6 | congratulate him or something, but I don't know how that goes. Nobody else is |
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