Effectively Wild Episode 898: The Expendable Ex-Superstars Edition
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam reevaluate the Dodgers’ mega-trade from 2012 and discuss how far Carl Crawford, James Shields, and Ryan Howard have fallen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hope you never grow up |
| 0:02.0 | Hope you never grow up |
| 0:04.0 | Hope you never grow up |
| 0:08.0 | Hope you never grow up |
| 0:12.0 | Hope you never grow up |
| 0:14.0 | Hope you never grow up |
| 0:18.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 898 of Effectively Wild. 898. |
| 0:24.0 | 898. 898. |
| 0:26.0 | 897. 898. |
| 0:28.0 | 898. |
| 0:30.0 | Pre-recorded future episode |
| 0:32.0 | I don't think we know about that yet |
| 0:34.0 | Well it's on iTunes |
| 0:36.0 | Brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:40.0 | As well as our supporters at Patreon |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey Ben, how are you? |
| 0:48.0 | Alright, I'm going to have to retcon that when we get to that future episode |
| 0:52.0 | This was a weekend with many reminders of our mortality |
| 0:54.0 | So I'm glad that it's time for the podcast again |
| 0:56.0 | It was tough for former superstars |
| 0:58.0 | Making somewhere between 20 and 25 million dollars this season |
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