Hi, folks, just a quick note, a couple big trades went down after we finished recording this episode.

So I tacked on an addendum with Zach Kram of the Ringer who joined me to talk about that news,

both the Dodgers Reds blockbuster and Jerry DePoto getting his transaction fixed,

so we will proceed with the previously scheduled episode and stay tuned to the end to hear that

conversation about the late breaking news.

I just can't do without you.

Hello and welcome to episode 1312 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from

Fandgrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Dan Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fandgrass who is preparing his stat blast as we speak Hello Jeff.

Why would you shed light on that fact?

That's gonna, now people are gonna over analyze every pause.

Dylan McGriddo pause.

Maybe they'll forgive anything that's not very insightful that you say because you're currently preparing a stat blast.

So we are gonna do emails and then at the end I'm going to talk to my colleague Katie Baker about a

leak of their own great baseball movie director Penny Marshall died this week, so it is a good time to

revisit perhaps her most celebrated work and we will do that in a while, but first any banter that we

want to get to, I guess there have been a few transactions.

Our buddy Travis Sachik wrote at 538 just this week about how cold the hot stove is and how

compared to previous seasons, he looked at the first 50 days I think after the World Series and

he compared this year and last year and going back to 2013 and the drop in spending has been

pretty precipitous. I think he found that it was like 1.23 billion dollars was spent in the first

50 days of the offseason in 2013. This winter it's 442.5 million, which is just a small fraction

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