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Effectively Wild Episode 2030: Deadline Dilemmas and Needs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Cost of Changing a Catcher at Mid-Season

Elias Diaz is a full wind below replacement level and on the framing leaderboard at fan graphs okay he's not worse but he's fifth worst after Kibber weez Shae Lingelier's Connor Wong last Diaz and Martin Maldonado so man that game calling better be absolutely amazing the game calling. The Astros they're not intentionally losing games I don't think that they I'm sure they have reasons to think that he is helping them or not hurting them as much as the public metrics would suggest. And then the Brewers the Brewers show up a lot here a lot of areas of need they're kind of lucky to be where they are.

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