You're bigger than you've ever been and now you're even older and now you're even older.

You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older and now you're older still.

Good morning and welcome to episode 581 of Effectively Wild that daily podcast from

baseball perspectives brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller

with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland. How are you Ben? Very well. Thank you. Did you have a nice

Thanksgiving weekend of play indexing with your family? Yeah, pretty good actually with my

girlfriend's family. They're big big play indexers. Was there any controversy? You know,

Thanksgiving dinner table controversy over what filters to run or whether...

Not everyone subscribes to the baseball history started in 1988 viewpoint that you have espoused.

Some of them actually like to go back to divisional era or expansion era.

Yeah, it can definitely get tense. A lot of disagreement about whether the

rookie filter is accurate enough to be worthwhile or not. Yeah, where does that percent playing time filter?

Oh, that's... Yeah, that can get ugly. Anyway, just a little Thanksgiving humor for everybody.

Anything to talk about? Not really. I've been traveling and writing while traveling and

otherwise not feeling all that plugged in. So I haven't collected my usual amount of banter

and the submissions for non-revellatory rumors have slowed after our stern mornings about standards.

So... We got it. Not too much. We got a couple though. One of which I really wanted to

mention, but I'm not seeing it at the moment. So maybe I will. We did get the Yankees are contemplating a

move but haven't committed to one. Yes. Which is a nice one because it's specifically about a

player but is not. Yes, it's a Nick Kaffarto rumor. He was talking about a bunch of teams. The

Cubs very interested in Leicester, the Giants becoming more interested in Leicester and the Yankees.

Contemplating a move but haven't committed to one. I suppose that qualifies.

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