Effectively Wild Episode 726: How Many Fingers is Mike Trout Holding Up?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam read responses to previous topics, then answer listener emails about Mike Trout, questionable bullpen decisions, what WAR is missing, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a big girl, round you, I'm a big girl, round you, you're my big girl, I'm in two, |
| 0:10.5 | I'm a big girl, I'm a big girl, you're my big girl, I'm a big girl, I'm a big girl, I'm a big girl, |
| 0:17.7 | Good morning, and welcome to episode 726 of Effectively Wilde, a daily podcast from |
| 0:24.6 | Baseball Prospectus presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of |
| 0:30.3 | Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus. Hi, do you want an email show? Yes, sir. Anything |
| 0:38.8 | to say before we start doing the email show? Well, I have two emails that I'd like to read that are |
| 0:45.0 | not questions, but our answers about things that we have previously talked about, so I don't know |
| 0:50.1 | if we wait for the email segment to get to those, or if those are considered fan-tour email. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm just going to start the email segment with those, so I think we can just blend them together. |
| 0:59.9 | Okay, doke. You want to read one? Yeah, sure. So I'll start with by reading |
| 1:05.9 | Michaels, who replied to our conversation about injury and fantex, and we wondered what happens |
| 1:12.6 | if fantex goes out of business, and if in fact, he was simply betting on the possibility that |
| 1:17.4 | they wouldn't, he wouldn't have to pay them back. Michael is a bankruptcy lawyer. Am I reading |
| 1:23.5 | that right? I didn't think he said what he was. He was an authoritative emailer. Wow, yeah. |
| 1:29.2 | Which sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Yeah, it's well, I assume he emailed because he |
| 1:36.3 | has some sort of specialized knowledge. I assume he is a lawyer, but he didn't claim to be one. |
| 1:43.0 | I would like it if in fact, he just did all the legwork for us, and like called seven or eight |
| 1:48.4 | sources, and put together a report that we could read. Anyway, he answers that condensed answer |
| 1:56.2 | if fantex goes belly up in the next six to 10 years, it enters bankruptcy, and he probably |
| 2:00.8 | gets sued for the $3.4 million by the bankruptcy trustee. Presumably if fantex goes out of business, |
| 2:06.6 | it will go into bankruptcy or be forced into involuntary bankruptcy by its creditors. |
| 2:11.1 | Once this happens, the trustee handling the bankruptcy will file what is commonly called clawback |
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