reacting to all the biggest storylines from early free agency that's what we're talking about today on stealing

bananas and beg gretch you can find the stealing signals newsletter at benggretsch.substack.com quick plug i wrote an article called reacting to early free agency

it's got like a dozen blurbs a ton of takes i'm going to mention a lot of them on the show today

but something you can get over at the newsletter bengrash dot substack com with me as always is sean

segal you can find all of his great work over at rhodoviz including as we've talked about in the last several shows the amazing rookie guide which is the

thing that you want to be making sure to pick up right now in addition to all the other great

stuff at rhodoviz but the rookie guide definitely a must have sean ton of stuff has happened.

We are talking right now in the early to, I guess, later afternoon on the West Coast.

It's more like evening on the East Coast on Tuesday.

We're still in the legal tampering period.

Of course, the legal tampering period, we get all the reports of all the

deals that have already been negotiated within minutes of, you know, the legal tampering period

open. We find about all of the, all the deals that have already been negotiated during what

is supposed to be the illegal tampering period.

This is supposed to be the time that teams are talking to players.

And then free agency is supposed to open on Wednesday.

But it is not yet Wednesday.

And some of the free agency lists, some of the people I've been following on social that have made the list, they're like, yeah, all my top 10 players are already accounted for,

two thirds of my top 50. Basically, top 10 players are already accounted for, two

thirds of my top 50. Basically, all the players are gone. A lot of the people that are paying

quite a bit of attention to the, this year's free agent class have mentioned that it's not

a very deep class. Free agency is basically over is what I'm getting at. Most everybody has

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