
Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Are You Not High?
A lot of times when you're trading for a player, you're really trading for them for the remainder of their contract. And because the a's or the a's, they can't stand the thought of paying even an arbitrary ARP 2 salary to anybody. If teams are acquiring them for the short term, their extendability is not really an issue in how much they're offering for them. I like Daniel's discretion here. Thought of this when he was high, but then decided to just wait to send the email. Sometimes it's more fun if you don't wait to sending the email.
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