Effectively Wild Episode 584: Is Billy Beane Bad for Baseball?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about rumors, David Robertson, and the Winter Meetings, then revisit the Josh Donaldson trade to decide whether Billy Beane is bad for baseball.

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0:00.0	Gonna anemores it to the...?
0:25.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 584 of Effectively Wild for the Daily Podcasts from
0:31.9	baseball perspectives brought to you by complete index at baseballreference.com.
0:37.2	I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, hello Ben.
0:40.8	Hi.
0:41.8	How are you?
0:42.8	Packing my bags for Sam.
0:44.8	Packing your bags to go away.
0:46.8	You're good.
0:48.8	You're okay.
0:51.8	You mock my business trips every time.
0:54.8	I actually was going to suggest as the maybe replacement game to non-revolatory trade
1:02.9	rumors, the winter meetings attendee who has no need to be their game.
1:09.0	I'm just going to make fun of like Grant Frisbee for being there.
1:13.2	Grant Frisbee is going to be like scouting out fountains with like seven cameras and
1:19.8	a notebook just waiting for somebody to go into a fountain.
1:23.9	The only reason that Grant Frisbee has to be in San Diego is just fountain watch.
1:31.7	So I thought that would be a fun game and here you are, the champion.
1:35.3	The champion of the game?
1:36.3	Why can't the champion of the judge check?
1:39.8	No less reason to be there than many other people who have little reason to be there.
1:45.0	You will travel farther than maybe all of them though.
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