Effectively Wild Episode 1138: No Loopholes Here

EWFI

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Gabe Kapler’s prospects as Phillies manager, Aaron Judge’s hard hitting, various end-of-season awards results, MLB’s baseball-studying committee, and Shohei Ohtani’s value to AL and NL teams and the difficulty of gaming the CBA to sign him, then answer listener emails about an Ohtani sign-and-trade, homegrown value vs. free-agent value, intentional walks in the automatic-IBB era, the best games to time travel to, and an odd three-way trade.

Audio intro: Jethro Tull, "Living in the Past"
Audio outro: Alan Parsons, "No Future in the Past"

Link to Matt Gelb’s Gabe Kapler article
Link to Jeff’s Aaron Judge post
Link to article about Ohtani and CBA loopholes
Link to article about all-1B three-way trade
Link to Effectively Wild t-shirts

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JCCfromDCMember since 2016
8 years ago

EFW 1138 …

davels
8 years ago

Phils fan… so… I am super NOT stoked about the Gabe Kapler hiring.

Yeah, he could be amazing, in some way that we’ve never seen before. I give that a ~5% chance of happening. Which leaves a ~95% chance that he’ll suck, and be ridiculed, as he’s run out of town… only bringing more ridicule onto our already undistinguished Phillies leadership (and our town).

That said. The Eagles are having a wonder year (and no Philadelphia fan TRULY expected that this year)… and the Sixers “process” is playing out… so… wtf. Maybe time to end the negativity?

(nah… Kapler ain’t gonna work…) LOL