Here's the high, he used to be his been ground down

And it listens for the footsteps that would follow him around

So my love is your cry

But will you still love me?

Good morning and welcome to episode 702 of Effectively Wild

The Daily Podcast and baseball perspective

Brought to you by the play next at baseballreference.com

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, Howdy Ben

Hello

Any leftover banter?

Well, I follow up to a bit of banter from yesterday

The Cubs Pirates Clayton Richard Trade

We talked about how it was seemed rare for two teams that were competing within the same division to make a trade

Turns out there actually is an explanation for why that happened

And it's not that they were just very open-minded

There was a clause in Richard's contract that required the pirates to either call him up or offer him to every team

And they didn't want to call him up

So they had to offer him to every team

And the Cubs said okay

I wonder what that means off from every team because they did still work out a trade

They were cash considerations

Yeah, so presumably they got to say all right you can have him if you give us something

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