Effectively Wild Episode 768: The Angels’ Simmons Incentives and the Braves’ Odd Rebuild

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss why three free agents accepted qualifying offers, then break down both sides of the Andrelton Simmons trade.

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0:00.0	Roll back to me, dear.
0:03.0	Feel I want to see me to begin now.
0:09.0	You'll find that when you roll back the secret of what's behind what's above.
0:18.0	It's all that I've been thinking of.
0:22.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 768 of Effectively Wild,
0:26.0	the Daily Podcast for baseball.
0:28.0	Spectre is brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:32.0	I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lindbergh, a ESPN high band.
0:36.0	Hello.
0:37.0	Hi, Ben. How are you?
0:38.0	Hey. Good.
0:39.0	Anything to talk about today?
0:41.0	Depends what you want to talk about.
0:43.0	I'd like to talk about my bowling injuries, but I don't think that that's probably the best thing to spend our time on.
0:48.0	So I'm going to, I will be talking about the Simmons trade and maybe a little bit of the, uh, the Martine trade.
0:56.0	All right.
0:57.0	That's probably it.
0:58.0	Okay.
0:59.0	Are your bowling injuries back to Saturday, soreness?
1:02.0	I'm merely tender now. I'm no longer walking with a limp.
1:05.0	Good. Yeah.
1:06.0	So you wanted to say something about qualifying offers yesterday that we didn't get to.
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