Effectively Wild Episode 814: Why Don’t the Best Free Agents Make Even More Money?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss why teams don’t pay a premium for elite free agents and why players who switch positions might not always do so smoothly.
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| 0:00.0 | He said my son temptation is one thing that I've defeated. |
| 0:03.2 | Listen to me, I want a single bill from you. |
| 0:05.7 | Not the less than or more. |
| 0:07.2 | I told him I need half a thing, close my door. |
| 0:09.1 | Tell me how much it down it cost. |
| 0:11.1 | Good morning and welcome to episode 814 of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:15.1 | Daily Podcasts from baseball perspective. |
| 0:17.1 | Brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lindmer, Kai Ben. |
| 0:23.1 | Oh, big, uh, big number in baseball history 814. |
| 0:27.1 | One of the most important numbers I would say. |
| 0:28.8 | Really? |
| 0:29.4 | Yeah, it's, you know, it's how many home runs. |
| 0:31.9 | They root what if he had a feed hit 100 more? |
| 0:35.7 | It's a theoretical math. |
| 0:36.9 | A magical number in baseball history. |
| 0:38.9 | Uh, anything to talk about? |
| 0:40.4 | Well, there's a report from Buster only that the, |
| 0:44.3 | where you get the players are making progress on a new slide rule. |
| 0:48.4 | Slide rule is a thing, but this is the paper kind of slide rule. |
| 0:52.0 | It's going to say something about players touching second base or |
| 0:56.9 | will have clear language. |
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