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Effectively Wild Episode 1979: Season Preview Series: Astros and Pirates

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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What's the State of the Click Baker Relationship?

Jim Crane got very involved in baseball ops toward the end Jeff Bagwell had a became a very very heavy sounding board for him Reggie Jackson a little bit to a lesser extent and It was an untenable situation. The way it was handled, you know, Jim Crane sending James click to the general managers meetings as a lame duck them Extending Dusty Baker and holding a press conference about it just rubbed a lot of people in the industry the wrong way. I don't want to say it was an acrimonious relationship I just think they had differences They had some philosophical differences of how things should be done.

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