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Hello and welcome to episode 1307 of Effectively Wildly, a baseball podcast from Vanguass,

run to you by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Wimberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff

Sullivan, live in Las Vegas for the NLP After Meeting cello Jeff.

Is this live? You're recording this.

Your live at this moment, it's not live when people are listening, but you're in a large

hotel, I would assume, at this moment. You've been brushing elbows with baseball people.

You all just got there, the winter meetings have not officially started until the weekend

started, but would you expect we haven't seen any major moves being made for the past

few days, which has been nice at baseball teams not to overload us? Would you expect this

to be a busy meetings to the extent that we can forecast that, given that we've just

seen a whole bunch of moves happen? Is this going to be like the time when we actually

see some movement with Machado and Harper?

I don't expect the Harper's sweepstakes to move quickly at all. Obviously stuff is happening

probably on a regular basis, Boris is in connection with people, but I think the Harper's sweepstakes

is going to last a very long time. I think it's going to be a classic Boris-free-age pursuit,

a high profile for Asian pursuit work. Scott Boris has been preparing for Bryce

Harper's free agency for probably five or six years now, and he doesn't want to blow

it.

I think, though, based on, I want to make clear, based on absolutely nothing. I think

that the Manning Machado's sweepstakes could move pretty quickly. I wouldn't be shocked,

again, based on nothing. I wouldn't be shocked to see him sign this week, just because I think

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