what are we listening to a baseball in the dryer yes hello and welcome to episode 92 of effectively

wild the daily podcast from baseball perspectives I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach California and I'm with

Ben Lindbergh in New York New York Ben is there anybody you'd like to wish a happy birthday to

today yes happy 29th birthday to Craig Gentry whose birthday was actually Thursday if you're

listening to this Friday but he is the Jose Molina of fourth outfielders and one of my strange

player fixations that happened when I write an article about someone for some interesting or

unusual thing and then never stop thinking about that thing whenever I think about that player again

and and form some sort of strange bond I was I was trying to figure out a couple days ago whether

Craig Gentry would have any trade value um he's got let's see what is he he's uh I'm looking

for his service time and stuff is he an arbitration guy already he is uh not I think he has two

years now well he has trade value in my heart yeah I mean he's is there really that much difference

between him and Brett Gardner is there any difference between him and Brett Gardner I think

there probably is I mean I don't know I think Gardner probably has better on base ability

I think I guess Gentry had a 344 lifetime OPP in only 476 played appearances but before

this season he was regarded as pretty much nothing offensively and I think he kind of had a

a babbit here and I got attached um him okay Gardner is is also one of my one of my fixations so

he gets he gets hit by a lot of pitches Gentry yeah and 10 this year yeah that's a thing that I

particularly like um anyway we're both going to talk about topics today um your topic is what my

topic is the prospect that the twins just traded for Alex Meyer okay and I would like to talk about

Russell Martin um so why don't you start by talking about the prospect of the twins just

traded for Alex Meyer okay uh so it's not so much him as it is what he symbolizes I guess or what

he represents he was traded he was the prospect coming back to the twins in the denards band deal

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