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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 942: Should Baseball Teams Buy Insurance?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to author, associate professor, and FanGraphs writer Nathaniel Grow about the financial ramifications of Prince Fielder’s retirement and how contract insurance works in baseball.

Transcript

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Oh, you want me baby, you gotta come to me

0:07.0

You might just like a storm of fear

0:12.0

You just can't move me, take out some shores on the bay

0:18.0

Oh, those are the shores on the bay

0:22.0

Well, have you ever had to see me by?

0:27.0

Hello and welcome to episode 942

0:33.0

of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast in baseball perspectives

0:36.0

presented by our Patreon supporters

0:38.0

and the play index at baseballreffins.com

0:41.0

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer

0:43.0

joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives

0:45.0

Hello, we are discussing the most exciting topic

0:48.0

in all of sports today in insurance

0:51.0

which is actually a question we get asked a lot

0:54.0

how does insurance work in baseball

0:56.0

and we always avoid the question

0:58.0

because we don't know how insurance works in baseball

1:00.0

we don't know much about it

1:01.0

teams don't talk about it all that much

1:04.0

and it's sort of this shadow

1:06.0

to the reagent market

1:08.0

we know all about contracts and signings

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