About this episode
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Ben and Travis Sawchik finishing their new book, The MVP Machine , Willians Astudillo ‘s MVP voting results, the Kyler Murray baseball/football decision and why it’s unusual for players in his situation to have leverage, Manny Machado rumors, and Yasmani Grandal ‘s comments about the contract he didn’t sign, then answer listener emails about why baseball players don’t hold out and Rickey Henderson ’s base-stealing today, plus Stat Blasts about the biggest gaps between best and second-best years and the giant New York Yankees. Audio intro : The Decemberists, " Midlist Author " Audio outro : Cake, " Open Book " Link to preorder The MVP Machine Link to Astudillo results Link to Jeff’s Garcia post Link to hitter height data Link to Grant’s Little League WAR article Link to article about baseball terms in Spanish iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source