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Hello and welcome to episode 1189 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from bandgrass presented

as always by our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Lundberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan

of fan crafts. Hello. How'd you like your free-adding contract picks?

Ah, not so much actually. Things started out so well, but I guess it wasn't that they started out.

So well, it was just that none of your picks had actually been resolved yet. And so

things were looking okay for me. On the whole, my picks were fine. I did all right. I generally

picked in the right direction, but you picked much better in the right direction. So the numbers

are down or fine on now. Yeah. So we will talk about some of the signings that finalized this draft

here. We'll talk about Jake Arrietta and Lanslin and well, not Jonathan Lucroyo, though he was also

involved in this draft. But we will talk about those guys and also Neil Walker shortly before we

then get to a Bay Area edition of our team previous series. We're going to talk to excellent

guests, Grant Brisbee on the Giants and Susan Sleser of the A's. But yes, the offseason contracts

draft again for listeners who weren't with us last November. We just chose overunders on MLB

trade rumors predicted free agent contracts. And if you chose in the right direction, you got credit

for the amount that the contract was in that direction, either over under. So my cumulative

showing with my 10 picks, $51 million. Not bad. I picked 51 million in the right direction. My

big hits were Logan Morrison. I took the under on him that worked out well for me. It sounds

almost ghoulish to gloat about players not getting any money this winter, but for this one purpose,

we can do it. We had stakes here. So you completely flew me away. This is just a historic showing.

And you ended up with a grand total of $184 million. Biggest contact with the winner right there.

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