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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 805: How Much is That World Series in the Window?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about Yoenis Cespedes’s contract, relievers winning awards, how much it costs to buy a World Series, prospect comparisons, and more.

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0:00.0

I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom.

0:05.6

I will buy you a new garden where they shine in new.

0:11.2

I will buy you that big line where I'll spend the rest till I will buy you a new life.

0:20.4

Yeah, I will buy you a new life.

0:27.4

Hello and welcome to episode 805 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast

0:33.6

from baseball perspective presented by the Plan Dex at baseballreference.com.

0:38.2

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538 Drone and Vice-Sam Miller of baseball perspective.

0:43.2

Hello, yo, Mr. Day.

0:45.2

So we had our, I'd say, last big book deadline or last book deadline that required a ton of work.

0:52.4

So we wrapped that up yesterday.

0:54.6

Again, if you are planning on getting the book, we'd appreciate pre-order and if you're pre-ordering,

1:00.3

we'd appreciate that you click on the link on the BP homepage and order through there

1:05.4

so that BP gets a tiny percentage.

1:07.9

Anything you want to talk about before we get to emails?

1:11.3

I don't believe so.

1:13.4

All right, well then let me answer a question from Dylan in New York just because we didn't

1:20.7

talk about the CESPITUS deal on Monday.

1:23.7

Dylan says, with you on a CESPITUS turning down a reported $110 million offer

1:28.8

from the nationals in exchange for the meant $75 million offer I got to thinking,

1:33.6

what's the largest difference between the cash amount a player wound up accepting versus the one

1:38.8

they reportedly turned down? CESPITUS is $35 million. Has there ever been a bigger difference?

1:45.1

I presume this is not play indexable and thus may require a bit of digging.

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