Time for the Baldwin Scale—Grading GMs on Trade Deadline Performance; Troy Tulowitzki; Rutger Hauer RIP (Ep.108)
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First and foremost, the Baldwin Scale is back! Did you miss it? We know you did!
Episode 108 of Foul Territory: A Baseball Podcast—the Annie Hall edition—devotes most of the episode to the Jed Rigney’s brainchild from several years ago: the Baldwin Scale. It’s Jed’s way of ranking GMs after the trade deadline, giving them an Alec rating for a great performance, a Billy rating for good but not great, a Stephen rating for failing to do enough and a Daniel rating for a dreadful performance. A handful of Alecs and Daniels, but most teams landed in the Billy or Stephen camps. Listen to get the details on Jed’s thoughts for each and every team. How about that blockbuster Grienke deal at as the clock struck 4 pm EST? Astros won the day and earned the biggest Alec of them all.
In addition, we discuss Woody Allen movies and their creep factor, and a few Headlines (Troy Tulowitzki, Twins fastest to reach 200 home runs in a season and Steve Wilkerson becoming the first position player to notch a save).
This week’s Starting Nine is a tribute to actor Rutger Hauer, who recently passed away. Jed transforms Hauer’s epic speech at the end of Blade Runner by strategically adding baseball player names to the soliloquy. Time to die … RIP, Rutger.
