Effectively Wild Episode 94: The Perplexing Trade Value of R.A. Dickey and Billy Butler

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2012

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the trade value of two of the players whose names were most often bandied about in rumors on the first day of the Winter Meetings.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 94 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from
0:12.2	Facebook Respectis.
0:13.9	I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California, where I'm reading a legislative proclamation
0:19.7	from the Georgia General Assembly in support of Ryan Klesko.
0:24.0	I just saw that comment on your article.
0:27.4	And Ben Lindbergh is in Nashville, Tennessee at a hotel that I just timed, takes five
0:33.8	minutes and 20 seconds to walk.
0:36.8	Yeah, probably longer than that.
0:39.4	I was going a pretty short way to find my headphones.
0:43.2	It takes longer than that to make a full circuit, certainly.
0:47.9	Okay.
0:48.9	Well, you brought a topic today?
0:52.2	Yes.
0:54.2	Okay.
0:55.2	I am somewhat traumatized by the sound of you stomping crickets on the way to your car.
1:03.7	Before I brought my topic, which is two players who were the subject of a bunch of trade rumors
1:12.5	on Monday, whose value is kind of tough to assess, I wanted to mention that there has
1:21.2	been a new addition to the lexicon of assessing how tradable a player is.
1:31.2	Frank Renn today, talking about Andrew T. Simmons, said, I don't think anybody is untouchable,
1:37.1	but I think he would be, and then there's an ellipsis unreachable.
1:44.4	So, that's when you know you're really not getting traded is when you're unreachable.
1:56.3	Untouchable is one thing.
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