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Hello and welcome to episode 1247 of Effectively Wild

baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass.

Hello, I'm Ben.

You and I were both away for the weekend.

You without service somewhere in the wilderness, I assume.

So we didn't get to watch all that much baseball over the weekend, but I do have some things to talk about.

The first one I want to talk about doesn't have anything to do with Mitchelik baseball, so that's fine.

We're both equally well prepared to talk about this.

On our last episode, we started by discussing Raphael Palmero's dominance in the independent leagues.

Now I am going to tell you about another more recently retired player who is even more dominant at an even lower level.

So recent Effectively Wild guest, Rustin Dodd of the Athletic, he wrote about what Billy Butler is up to these days.

Remember, Billy Butler Country Breakfast, D.H. Just kind of your beer belly masher.

He is now actually playing in a beer league basically, and he is mashing as one would expect.

So Rustin wrote this for the athletic over the weekend, and I will just read here.

So Billy Butler, most recently, was in the majors in 2016, was an above average hitter for the A's and the Yankees, and that was it.

And now he is playing for a local softball team named FarmGrade in the Idaho Falls Parks and Rec Men's League.

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