Effectively Wild Episode 74: The Ervin Santana Trade, the Royals’ Rotation, and the Pitching Market/Rick Hahn and the Future of Front Offices

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2012

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss what the Ervin Santana trade says about the Royals’ rotation and the pitching market, then talk about what Rick Hahn’s ascension to the GM role in Chicago means for the future of front offices.

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0:00.0	Good morning. Good evening. Welcome to effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball
0:22.5	perspective. We are on episode 74. I'm in Long Beach, California. I'm Sam Miller. In New York,
0:29.4	New York is Ben Lindbergh. Ben, how are you doing? Great. Do you have food and water?
0:35.6	Yeah. I never lost it. Great. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Do you have a topic about baseball?
0:45.2	Yeah. I am going to read part of a reader email and kind of use that to talk about the
0:52.8	royals rotation and urban centenine and the pitching market. Great. And I'm going to
1:02.0	talk about Rick Han. And by talking about I'm going to express admiration for a piece we ran
1:09.2	about Rick Han today and not go much deeper than that. Why don't you start and hopefully
1:15.1	carry us near the end of this show? Okay. So we got an email from listener Dane. This is a
1:22.1	historic moment. It is the first listener email that has been read on the show. Dane said,
1:28.1	I am a royals fan who hopes that some rotation help is coming soon. This is a couple days ago.
1:33.5	David Glass in some media outlets has stated that the club would be looking to bolster the rotation.
1:38.6	Dayton Moore has discussed trying to do Soviet free agency or trade. Can you discuss the potential
1:44.4	starting pitcher possibilities for the royals including but not limited to the following names?
1:49.4	He then names some starting pitchers. Then he says what pitchers might make the most sense for
1:54.9	the royals. Are there any DFA players like potentially Jair George? Four royals. The big hopes
2:05.2	for their rotation is are there any DFA players? I love the podcast. It is a highlight of my day when
2:11.7	I can shut my door and listen in because he is afraid to listen with the door open because people
2:18.1	might know that he is listening to our podcast presumably. So the royals did make a starting
2:25.6	pitcher move yesterday. They traded for urban Santana whom we talked about a couple days ago.
2:34.4	What did we say about him? I was trying to remember what I predicted they do.
2:38.4	I think we said that they would decline the option and that he had a better chance to
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