Effectively Wild Episode 597: Why Aren’t Winning Teams Spending?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam attempt to solve the mystery of why losing teams have uncharacteristically snapped up so many free agents this winter.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe even the losses |
| 0:04.5 | Feel like you're someone just |
| 0:07.8 | Even the losses |
| 0:11.9 | Keepin' never breath |
| 0:15.5 | Maybe it'll like you sometimes |
| 0:20.8 | Good morning and welcome to episode 517 from Effectively Wild |
| 0:25.1 | with the Daily Talks Act. |
| 0:26.4 | When baseball perspectives brought to you by the play-in-ex at baseballreference.com |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of grantland.com. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi Ben. |
| 0:35.4 | Hi. |
| 0:36.2 | Did you do a play-in-ex? |
| 0:37.3 | On one side did Zachary do a play-in-ex? |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah, Zachary did a guest play-in-ex on plunkings, |
| 0:42.8 | Craig B. Gio's, hit by pitch rates, and other players hit by pitch rates. |
| 0:47.2 | He's a good one. |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah, he's a good one. |
| 0:50.0 | He's a good one. |
| 0:50.7 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:51.7 | I uh, I don't uh, I never, I never regret missing an |
| 0:56.1 | episode |
| 0:57.6 | for, you know, to be somewhere else. |
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