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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 791: Brewster’s Emails

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Justin Upton and answer listener emails about baseball movies, rap lyrics, restructuring divisions, free-agent demands, and more.

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0:00.0

Music

0:20.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 791 of Effectively Wild Big Daily Podcast from Baseball

0:25.7

of Texas.

0:35.7

I read a Justin Upton rumor.

0:37.7

We got proof of life on Justin Upton.

0:40.7

John Marosi tweeted that the orals are staying in contact with Justin Upton as a fallback

0:46.5

if they do not resign Chris Davis.

0:49.6

So he's still a plan B, but at least it sounds like someone's checking on him.

0:53.8

Someone is aware he exists.

0:54.8

Although it is still we plan to talk to him if we need to at some future point kind of

1:00.8

a thing.

1:01.8

Yeah, it's a staying in contact.

1:03.6

There's no signing imminent.

1:05.7

No signing imminent.

1:06.7

No.

1:07.7

You're right that it is proof that they have not forgotten that he exists, but it is also

1:12.6

a planning rumor, not really a signing rumor.

1:18.1

Yep, that's true.

1:20.2

Poor guy.

1:22.2

He's supposed to be like a, you know, by this point in his career.

1:27.7

It's crazy because Justin Upton was supposed to be like a superstar by this point in his

1:33.1

career, like a future hall of favor.

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