Effectively Wild Episode 80: Could Josh Hamilton Be a Bargain?/Are the Financially Responsible Yankees for Real?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2012

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss whether Josh Hamilton could end up signing a reasonable contract after all and talk about whether the Yankees can commit to and compete despite their goal to get under the luxury tax threshold by 2014.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 80 of Effectively Wild, the baseball
0:11.1	perspective daily podcast in New York. I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach,
0:17.0	California in the Honda Fit in the garage where the crickets are quiet because
0:22.9	he has killed them all. It is Sam Miller. How are you, Sam? Good, Ben. How are you doing?
0:28.5	I'm okay. And we have come to our final show of the week, which means that we're going back
0:35.7	to two topics. Each of us has brought one theoretically at least. Have you brought one?
0:42.1	I have. And what is it? Josh Hamilton. Okay. And mine is the Yankees and their spending or lack
0:53.3	thereof. Oh, good. That's actually probably one that I'm interested in hearing you talk about.
0:58.9	So I'm glad that you picked it. And if I listened to this podcast, I would be excited right now.
1:07.3	So which of us should go first? Why don't I go first? Okay. So Josh Hamilton is a free agent.
1:15.6	He's looking to get paid a lot of money. He is presenting himself as one of the best players in
1:22.8	baseball. And he maybe is. I mean, I guess everybody is one of the best players in baseball.
1:30.9	If you, for instance, say one of the 5,000 best, then many people are. If you say one of the three
1:36.4	best, then only three are. And Josh Hamilton is probably not that. But he is one of the best if you
1:41.8	have a nice sort of small number. And yet there, I think, is a, well, I don't quite know how to
1:50.0	frame this. There's a sort of, I don't know, probably a sense among almost everybody who I follow
1:58.2	that Josh Hamilton is going to make somebody really unhappy in time. Nobody seems to be that
2:04.8	excited about their team getting him. And sort of more notably, none of the, really none of the
2:13.2	big sort of smart, big money teams that can kind of choose who they want to sign seems to be
2:22.4	interested in him. And so instead, we heard today that the, or this week we heard that the Orioles
2:29.5	are interested in him. There is talked at the Mariners are interested in him. The consensus seems
2:34.0	to be that the Brewers are perhaps the front runner to get him. These are all teams that you don't
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