Effectively Wild Episode 810: The Empty Average Edition
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam answer listener emails about Howie Kendrick’s contract, Scott Boras and the CBA, how teams hire analysts, young MVPs, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been thinking I'm working too hard |
| 0:04.0 | But I got something to show |
| 0:08.0 | I know that you love me |
| 0:14.0 | So tonight, I'm searching for hope |
| 0:20.0 | I know that you love me |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 810 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:34.0 | The Daily Podcast from baseball perspective presented by the play index |
| 0:38.0 | at baseballreference.com |
| 0:40.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of 538 |
| 0:42.0 | joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, hello, we're doing some emails today |
| 0:48.0 | Anything you want to talk about before we get there? |
| 0:52.0 | All right then, let me start with a question from Corey in Franklin, Tennessee |
| 1:00.0 | His email was subject-lined Howie and the question was |
| 1:04.0 | So does this mean that Howie Kendrick's agent is really bad |
| 1:08.0 | And by this, he means Howie Kendrick's contract |
| 1:12.0 | which is with Dodgers for two years and 20 million dollars guaranteed |
| 1:18.0 | So does that mean that his agent is really bad? |
| 1:22.0 | And he turned down a qualifying offer by the way |
| 1:26.0 | So he rejected a one-year, 15.8 million dollar contract |
| 1:30.0 | and ended up signing two and 20 |
| 1:34.0 | Well, so there's two questions I guess |
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