Effectively Wild Episode 796: Podcasting Under Pressure
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about Ian Kennedy and their free-agent-contract predictions, then answer listener emails about the Dodgers’ front office, The Players’ Tribune, Coors Field and Gerardo Parra, silent free agents, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Too many people going underground |
| 0:04.7 | Too many reaching for a piece of cake |
| 0:10.0 | Too many people who land pushed around |
| 0:14.7 | Too many waiting for that lucky break |
| 0:20.0 | That was your first mistake |
| 0:25.1 | You took your lucky break |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm going to |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 796 |
| 0:33.2 | How effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball perspectives presented by the play index at baseball reference dot com |
| 0:39.7 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538 joined by San Miller of baseball perspectives. Hello. Hey there your boy Ian Kennedy |
| 0:46.7 | It's all over the rumor mill. Oh, is he yeah, John Hayman tweeted that the royals seem very focused on Kennedy |
| 0:53.4 | But others are still in so there is an Ian Kennedy market |
| 0:57.5 | Bad news for you. Oh, I've got no |
| 1:01.2 | I'm now I'm now I'm now I'm now tanking for picks. So I want to lose this by as much as possible |
| 1:09.5 | You're only about a hundred and ten million dollars behind me right now and is is Kennedy the last player on the court? |
| 1:16.5 | No, Chris Davis under on Ian Kennedy's contract and you have the under on Austin Jackson's |
| 1:23.3 | predicted 20 million dollar contract. Don't you have Chris Davis? I do I have Chris Davis and |
| 1:28.9 | Cesspitus I might take a hit on Cesspitus. How much do you have the over |
| 1:33.6 | on Cesspitus at 126? |
| 1:35.9 | So I might take a hit there. We'll see Davis. I took the over on 120 and he's apparently just take this Orioles deal |
| 1:43.7 | Which is what 144 something 150 150 150 put this thing away |
| 1:50.5 | I'm scared it's gonna dry up if he waits too long, but anyway, he's gonna sign a pillow contract |
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