Effectively Wild Episode 789: Premature Takes on the Kenta Maeda Contract

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about the unusual number of unsigned position players, then share their initial reactions to the Dodgers’ signing of Kenta Maeda.

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0:00.0	Happy New Year, my only 5th year.
0:05.0	What a happy, happy life.
0:08.0	I am open.
0:14.0	Happy New Year, my only 5th year.
0:18.0	What a happy, happy life.
0:22.0	I am open.
0:25.0	Happy New Year, my only 5th year.
0:27.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 789.
0:29.0	I have effectively wilded the daily podcast from baseball
0:32.0	perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:37.0	I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lindbergh of 538.
0:40.0	Hey Ben.
0:41.0	Hello. How are you?
0:42.0	I'm surprisingly okay.
0:44.0	This used to be, or usually is one of my least favorite days of the year.
0:49.0	Kind of the post holidays hang over vacation.
0:53.0	Whether an actual vacation if you're in school or sort of a vacation if you're in work.
0:58.0	That week between Christmas and New Year's and my birthdays on Christmas.
1:02.0	So all of the good times of the year were concentrated in this few weeks.
1:07.0	And then I was always depressed the first day coming back after that to the real world.
1:12.0	But not so much this year.
1:14.0	Why do you suppose?
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