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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 601: Why Washington Signed Scherzer

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Nori Aoki’s contract, then discuss the Nationals’ signing of Max Scherzer.

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 601 of Effectively Wild.

0:23.5

The daily podcast from baseball perspective brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com.

0:30.0

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh.

0:32.2

Hi Ben.

0:33.0

Hi.

0:33.8

Ben Lindbergh of Grandland, by the way.

0:35.8

It's right.

0:36.8

How are you?

0:37.8

Okay.

0:38.8

Excellent.

0:39.8

Did you use the Play Index at all today?

0:42.0

I didn't today know.

0:43.6

It's an exception.

0:45.6

Mm-hmm.

0:46.6

I did.

0:47.6

Yeah, you wrote about MacSharz or I detected some Play Index use in that article.

0:52.4

There was.

0:53.4

It was all Play Index driven.

0:55.4

Well, a lot of it was.

0:56.8

Yeah.

0:58.8

So we're going to talk about MacSharz or of course.

1:04.4

Very quickly though, Russell Carlton has written a piece for BP that will be up on the site.

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