In this otherworldly land of ours I've walked by the buildings, I've walked by the moss,

I've walked by the skyscrapers, Lolley and Doc in the lonely financial zone, by the sea.

I walk under moon and stars.

Hello and welcome to episode 1179, effectively wild ADs by podcast from FanGraphs,

presented as always by our Patreon supporters. I am Benlund Berg of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan,

of FanGraphs who has been writing about the race pretty much constantly since we stopped

recording yesterday. They're interesting. Yeah, I mean, I know this is like a particular offseason

where I think a lot of internet people have been conditioned to now kind of hate the race and I

can't really speak to that, but they're interesting. It's fun to have the offseason going and it's

fun to try to figure out exactly what the race are doing and it turns out there's really nothing

more endopharious to it. They're just being extremely raised. Yeah, you wrote or tweeted or both

yesterday that you thought they might start adding now after they've made a bunch of trades and

they did. They signed Carlos Gomez who surprisingly probably signed for one year and four million

dollars. That doesn't seem like a lot of money. No, it sure doesn't, especially not for a Scott

Boris client. I don't know. I had a one-time chat today on Wednesday. I switched places with

controversial. Daniel, this doesn't matter, but I had a chat on Wednesday and somebody asked

early in the chat like, hey, now that the race have an opening, does it make sense to maybe sign

like Carlos Gomez or Jose Batista? I looked at it and thought, yep, it sure does. Because

Carlos Gomez kind of struck me as like an older version of Steven Suzza's skill set. Well then

later in the chat news came out that the race signed Carlos Gomez for a very cheap contract

one year and four million. Yeah, when you dig in, Carlos Gomez does everything kind of like

Steven Suzza does. He's just older and a little more fragile, but Suzza is only a year removed

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