I'll soon forget what was never there Your words are ashen dust

All this life is a song I've sung The breath I've taken and the one I must

If you're born with love for the road and the rid

People have let us your warning stands clear Bay, heat to your heart and not to your wit

Don't say the letter what you calling my ear

Hello and welcome to episode 1164 of Effectively Wild A Baseball Podcast from

Fan Graphs presented by our Patreons supporters. My name is Ben Limberg. I'm a writer for the

ringer.com. I'm joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs who like me has nothing to talk about today.

How are you? I'm doing well. My name is Jeff Sullivan. I'm a writer for Fan Graphs and I

guess I'm like Ben I do write about baseball sometimes right. Yeah I'll I'll be back someday

when baseball is back. But yeah we're doing an email show today so it's okay that neither of us

has anything to talk about. Of course much of the discourse about baseball in the last day or so

has been about its economics and about a big article that Jeff Passen wrote about free agency

and arbitration and why free agents haven't signed. We're hoping to just talk to Jeff about that

in an upcoming episode so we will save that topic for now and hopefully get into it with him or

with us one way or another we will but today is for emails and we haven't done one of these in a

while so we've got a bunch of emails to get to. And you know what's going to happen before we

have Jeff Passen on is that Eric Cosmer and JD Martinez and the thick kid. They're all going to

throw all going to sign giant contracts. Yes that is quite possible. All right let's start with an

email from Gary from Baltimore. This is a bit about the current market but it won't encroach

too much on what we'll be talking about. Next time he says recently I've seen a lot of articles

talking about the recent explosion of rebuilding teams and how that's potentially helping to kill

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