Effectively Wild Episode 1461: Hot Stove Stirrings
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about what the Padres’ 2017 Rule 5 trio is up to now, the Mariners’ aggressive Evan White extension, how teams would distribute their spending if every player (amateur or pro) were a free agent but spending were capped at a percentage of MLB revenue, the just-announced All-MLB Team, the White Sox signing Yasmani Grandal, whether the early action on the free-agent market has been at all surprising or encouraging, and the results of Sam’s surveys about a “Baseball Genie” who grants fans of each team’s wishes, with a catch.
Audio intro: The Jayhawks, "You Look So Young"
Audio outro: The Claypool Lennon Delirium, "Cricket and the Genie (Movement I, The Delirium)"
Link to Ben on the Padres’ Rule 5 experiment in 2017
Link to Sam on the Padres’ Rule 5 experiment in 2017
Link to Sam in 2013 on the future of extensions
Link to Kiley on the White extension
Link to Passan’s All-MLB Team
Link to All-MLB Team voting
Link to Ben on the historically slow November 2017
Link to Sam on Grandal in 2016
Link to Sam on the MLB genie
Link to order The MVP Machine
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