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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 922: What’s a Wild Card Worth?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Sam’s move, the Waxahachie Swap, and Ryan Webb and Matt Albers, then discuss how much several contenders should be willing to trade to improve their playoff odds.

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0:00.7

Round and round we go,

0:07.4

The weather has come.

0:14.1

But I know with goodness please step forward.

0:21.8

Some żeруг years on me the snow

0:24.2

Good morning and welcome to episode 7 of

0:31.2

Number Ben 922 of effectively wild daily podcast from baseball

0:35.2

Perspectus brought to you by the plane decks baseball reference.com and our Patreon

0:40.2

Sporters. I'm Sam Miller along with Benlinburger538. Hi Ben. Hi. You hear that? I sure do. It sounds like a dog. That is

0:48.2

Wow. That is long beach wildlife. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. We're gonna be

0:54.2

picking up some sounds that might be familiar to the the very old school listeners

0:59.2

Uh-huh. Because after something like 700 episodes, I'm gonna be back here. All right. So there's

1:06.2

going to be a dog all the time. I don't think so. I right now I don't have,

1:11.2

wow, I was going to say I don't have Wi-Fi. I don't have electricity in the house. And so I'm

1:16.2

at a neighbors. And so that dog is their dog. But there might be crickets. There might be.

1:22.2

Okay. I saw a cricket today. Did you kill it? No. It wasn't near my house. It was about

1:29.2

a half mile away from my house. And I thought that is where you should be. I feel like in the old days,

1:34.2

you still would have just instinctively gone after it. No, I don't have any problem with crickets.

1:39.2

Only crickets that come to my house. I had a long drive this morning and I listened to all the

1:45.2

Rani and Joe episodes. Oh, cool. They were great. Yeah. That was really fun. It was really fun. That took

1:51.2

up three hours of my drive. Yeah. You should go away more often. I'm surprised because I remember

1:57.2

previous trips. I don't know if you caught up on episodes you missed. Yeah. I normally don't.

2:02.2

Well, yeah. They were fun. Yeah. All right. Let's see. One of the things that was mentioned

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