Hey everyone, just so you know, the episode you're about to hear was recorded before the

news that Tommy John surgery has been recommended for Shohei O'Tani, which clearly merits some

podcast discussion.

So we will be turning to, and we will have another episode up later today, in which we

will focus solely on that.

So keep an eye out after this episode for another one in just a few hours.

Hello and welcome to episode 1266 of the Effectly Wilded Fan Rept.

Baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Jeff Sullivan, a fan rep, trying to always buy a Vendlin break of the ringer.

Hello, Ben, how are you?

I'm doing all right.

You're doing all right.

That's great.

So, I guess we will be joined on this episode later on by Fang Rapp's own Cheryl Ring.

She talked about labor and M.O.B.P.A. hiring Bruce Meyer, and also service time manipulation

after that, Ben and I will also talk more about service time manipulation.

Can't talk about baseball in September without talking about service time manipulation.

I guess we haven't talked about rosters getting bigger.

Maybe we'll do that later.

That's just another thing that comes up every single year.

But before we get to those things, I guess we have a little bit of banter.

I just want to throw a few numbers at you.

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