Effectively Wild Episode 655: Lester vs. Hamilton: The Pickoff Culmination
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about the weekend’s best plays and Mike Trout’s hidden hobby, then discuss the potential pickoff showdown between Jon Lester and Billy Hamilton.
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| 0:00.0 | The wind and snow in the rain now flows |
| 0:05.0 | None of those would matter much from you |
| 0:18.0 | And as long as it's talking with you |
| 0:23.0 | Tog of the weather will come |
| 0:27.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 65 |
| 0:30.0 | Effectively wild that the Envy podcast from baseball perspective |
| 0:33.0 | Dotcom brought to you by the play index at baseball reference dot com |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of grantland dot com hi Ben |
| 0:41.0 | Hi how are you all right all right I have I have a lot of |
| 0:47.0 | Fanta so do I actually know maybe it's the same it's probably the same stuff |
| 0:52.0 | I have about ten tabs of banter open |
| 0:55.0 | Oh geez I have three |
| 0:57.0 | All right I bet there's overlap go ahead all right so first Ryan Webb right out |
| 1:03.0 | I did by the Dodgers which I'm bringing up partly because the Ryan Webb but I'm actually |
| 1:09.0 | Bringing it up more because it's Charlie Wilmuth pointed out on M.O.B. trade |
| 1:14.0 | Rivers so the Dodgers trade a couple of guys for Ryan Webb and then immediately |
| 1:19.0 | Outright him and because of his experience he can he can refuse that so he can be a |
| 1:24.0 | Free agent if he wants to he didn't though he accepted |
| 1:27.0 | Ah dog I did that was not clear here's been breaking news since that post he |
| 1:33.0 | Has accepted his assignment to triple A but let's just say that the Dodgers see I |
| 1:38.0 | So as Charlie pointed out this seems like this trade was essentially entirely |
| 1:44.0 | About the Dodgers taking his 2.75 million dollars that that someone was going to have to pay him |
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