Effectively Wild Episode 784: The Cubs Are Kinda Good

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss whether signing Jason Heyward makes the Cubs the best team in baseball.

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0:00.0	J-SERM, you're the only one
0:08.0	J-SERM, like a sped son
0:16.0	Like that, you're the only one
0:23.0	J-SERM, you're the only one
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to episode 784 of Effectively Wild
0:34.0	The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectice
0:37.0	presented by the play index at baseballreference.com
0:40.0	I'm Ben Lindbergh, a 538, joined by Sam Miller
0:43.0	at Baseball Perspectice. Hello, yo!
0:46.0	Very close to not doing a podcast today
0:48.0	We announced that we were not doing a podcast today
0:51.0	It's kind of crunch time for the book right now
0:54.0	But in the end, we are still a daily podcast
0:57.0	We're doing a quick one on the Jason Hayward signing by the Cubs
1:01.0	We talked about Hayward some yesterday
1:04.0	But we will talk a little bit about how he fits in with his new team
1:09.0	We don't even know the terms yet
1:11.0	As we are recording, the only thing we know is that
1:15.0	The deal is supposedly for less than $200 million
1:19.0	Which I guess based on our conversation
1:23.0	That alone is maybe enough to say that you like this deal
1:28.0	Probably, what would be the...
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