Effectively Wild Episode 710: Hamels, Latos, and Gomez, Oh My
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss a wild Wednesday night on the trade market, covering a three-team involving involving the Dodgers, Braves, and Marlins, the Cole Hamels deal, and the Mets’ almost-trade for Carlos Gomez.
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| 0:00.0 | SENSE eyeliner |
| 0:18.8 | FAKE |
| 0:30.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 710 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from |
| 0:36.0 | Baseball Perspectus presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:40.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus. Hello. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:48.0 | All right. How are you? |
| 0:50.0 | Pretty good. |
| 0:52.0 | Okay, so we're doing another podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | And we have lots of things to talk about. |
| 0:56.0 | Anything to talk about before we talk about trades? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, Andy, Andy McCullough came through and confirmed, confirmed, |
| 1:04.0 | confirmed, answered the question. |
| 1:06.0 | And he says, and I have no reason to doubt it. |
| 1:10.0 | I take him at his word, though it is a convenient, convenient answer for him. |
| 1:14.0 | He confirms that he did use scuttled intentionally as a nautical term when writing about |
| 1:20.0 | the plans to reenact Cortez's burning of the ships. |
| 1:24.0 | Reenact, enact, enact, enact the legend, enact the never actually happened. |
| 1:30.0 | Right. |
| 1:32.0 | Can't reenact a thing that didn't happen. |
| 1:34.0 | So, yes, so he says scuttled was intentional. |
| 1:36.0 | I will note that if you simply search right now for Carlos Gomez and scuttled, |
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