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Effectively Wild Episode 1991: Mascot Moment

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Great Sid Finch Story

Ethan: Make every effort to trade Mike Trout to Philadelphia. If that means that you have a little less leverage and you get a lighter return then I think you owe that to Mike Trout for his years of service to your organization yeah. Do you think baseball would simply let him play putting aside the injury risk if a player had a skill that made them genuinely too good would baseball permit it or would they have to do something about it? Ethan: Baseball might need to step in and in some sense ban that player from playing or using his skills who I'm sure we've considered some sort of question like this over the years but I think of it's one player it's in some ways easier

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