Effectively Wild Episode 578: The Free-Agent Contract Over/Under Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2014
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about Jose Molina, Pat Venditte, and non-revelatory rumors, then draft free agents whose contracts they expect to be above or below published estimates.
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| 0:00.0 | Over and over again my love Over and over again with you |
| 0:16.0 | Over and over again my love Over and over again with you |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 578 of Effectively Wildly Daily Podcasts from Baseball |
| 0:36.9 | Perspectives presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:40.9 | I am that member of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective. |
| 0:44.9 | Hello. |
| 0:45.9 | Hi. How are you? |
| 0:46.9 | Okay. |
| 0:47.9 | I just realized that you didn't send me this in like a spreadsheet. |
| 0:51.9 | You could have sent it in a spreadsheet and I could have seen all of it in one view instead of scrolling down through all the graphics. |
| 0:58.9 | But on the other hand I had enough lead time that I could have put in a spreadsheet myself. |
| 1:04.9 | So really who's the player? |
| 1:06.9 | Are we talking about today's topic which we have not disclosed yet? |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah. That's what we're talking about. |
| 1:12.9 | Okay. Well we will be doing a draft of a sort today about free agent values and predictions. |
| 1:20.9 | So we'll get to that shortly. Anything you want to discuss first? |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah. A couple things. |
| 1:27.9 | First of all, Jose Molina was going to be defaed tonight. |
| 1:33.9 | I assume that happened. That was the report. |
| 1:38.9 | So what do you make of that? |
| 1:41.9 | I hope he goes to St. Louis and forms a two man Molina tandem. |
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