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Effectively Wild Episode 1947: The Stories We Missed in 2022 (NL Edition)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Those Guys Are a Little Bit Like a Catcher, Right?

I imagine that part of what they're doing here is strategically targeting guys, not only for their production on the field, but for their potential willingness to sign contracts like this. You are able to have some amount of certainty about, you know, sort of what your floor is in a way that other players don't write. It does put these guys in a position where when they eventually hit free agency, they're hitting free agencies later into their lives. But I do think that we want to continue to really be to really scrutinize deals like this,.

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