Effectively Wild Episode 725: Why Don’t Bad Teams Tank in September?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss Yoenis Cespedes’ MVP case and contract, then talk about why bad teams don’t try to lose in September.

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0:00.0	I give up, I'm through it, try it.
0:05.6	I give up, I'm through it, you lie.
0:11.3	I give up, I'm through it, you.
0:16.8	I give up, I've done all I can do.
0:21.4	Good morning and welcome to episode 725
0:24.1	of Effectively Wild The Daily podcast
0:26.5	from baseball perspectives.
0:28.1	I'm brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:31.3	I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lindbergh, hi Ben.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:34.8	How are you?
0:35.6	All right.
0:37.2	OK.
0:38.7	Didn't sound great.
0:40.4	No, you sounded like you were trying to get to the end of this.
0:44.3	We always know.
0:45.5	If that's the case, I can help you out.
0:48.0	We can end it right now.
0:50.4	No, we've tried and failed to do this topic once,
0:54.0	so we're going to do it today.
0:55.5	All right, so Ben, do you have any banter?
0:58.3	Yeah, I guess I do.
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