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Effectively Wild Episode 2034: Strand Rate

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Role of Budget in Baseball Acquisition

The Rays have a reputation for treating their front office employees well of maintaining a robust scouting staff is pretty well established as opposed to some other teams where you know they have cut back on scouting. Bob Nutting views baseball as an opportunity for him to extract wealth from both the people who watch baseball and the other owners baseball teams so I think that there's a really important distinction to be drawn there. Some of them seem to come from a place of necessity that is more about money than it is about what is the very best team that we can put on the field.

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