Good morning and welcome to episode 88 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California. You are Ben Lindbergh. Ben, how are you?

I am very well. How was your Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving weekend?

It was just delightful. Very well. How was yours? It was good. I had the traditional Thanksgiving

foods and then I went into my bunker to write player comments for the annual. Who cooked your food?

My great aunt. Exceptional. All right. You have brought a topic for us to talk about today

and that's baseball related. Yeah. I want to talk about the Will Meyers rumors and RJ Anderson's

article about the Will Meyers rumors which is up on baseball prospectus today, today being Monday.

What are the Will Meyers rumors? The rumors I think as I don't know if it was originally reported

by Jeff Passon or maybe Michael Silverman, a Boston writer, but it has been reported that the

Royals and the language differs depending on what rumor you read, but Jeff Passon said that they

have been shopping Will Meyers which sort of implies an active role, whereas other writers portray it

as listening to offers, which is a much more passive representation of what's happening, but they

have in some sense let it be known reportedly that they are willing to trade Meyers for starting

pitching. They have already, of course, acquired some starting pictures this offseason or signed one

they already had trading for Santana as we talked about and then signing Jeremy Guthrie, but they

feel that they are not done and I guess their position players currently on the team and prospect

wise are stronger than their pitching and they are open to doing something to correct that imbalance.

And Meyers, of course, if he is not the top prospect in baseball, he is certainly on the very short

list, so it would be something if he were traded. And we talked, I guess it was a couple weeks ago

about how teams seem to be or might be becoming more willing to trade their young players and possibly

even their prospects, which we theorized could be because it's easier to quantify their value now

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