Good morning and welcome to episode 97 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

prospectus daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh and in

Long Bay Beach, California, in the Honda Fit. Joining me is Sam Miller. Hello, Sam.

Hello. This is our last show of the week and we are going to do one topic and

Sam has selected that topic. So what have you brought us today? My topic is

Koji Uya. I suspected as much when I saw you tweeting about him. I wanted to

I wanted to tweet at you to save it for the podcast. Ah yes well it's yeah

No, we'll talk about you Uhara. Okay. Is that how you would pronounce it? Koji Uhara?

Uh yeah sure. One of the weird things about doing what we do is that you spend all

your life with baseball players information about baseball players but you

never actually talked to anybody and so you find yourself doubting the way to

pronounce a lot of names. Yes. I do. I do. I've asked you before we've started

recording a couple times how you would say something. Yeah I've heard his name. I've

probably heard his name a million times and I've probably internalized it but

I've never set it out loud and until you say it out loud you don't quite know

how it's gonna come out. Yeah I think in my head I had it as more of a Uya

Hara than an Uya Hara but it's a subtle difference. So the reason I wanted to

talk about him is that we've talked on this show about the wages that baseball

teams play pay for relievers for free agent relievers and they generally don't

follow the traditional war or warp two dollar ratio that we've come to expect

for free agents they get paid usually more and there's often a sort of a

predictable outcry to these deals but we well I you know see every team doing

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