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For the love you bring, more meaning.

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Hello and welcome to episode 1338 of Effectively Wildly 8,

baseball podcast, and famed graphs presented by our

Patriots supporters, the thiamed Henry of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of

Fandreff. So now we're doing another team preview podcast today.

So very shortly we will be welcoming on Tim Britain of the

athletic to talk to us about the meds.

And then we will be talking to Ben Nicholson Smith of

SportsNet about the Blue Jays. Before we get to that,

there's one thing I meant to follow up on from last week that

we didn't have time to talk about yesterday because of the

machado madness. But we had talked about the theory or the hypothesis

that players were signing extensions at an increased rate

because of fears of free agency. And you said you were going to do

some follow up research about that. And you did and you published

some of it. And maybe we were a little too hasty in declaring

that an apparent trend. Yeah, I think it is a trend that we are

likely to see developing. Maybe in the same way we're talking

about, you know, the revenue split going to players that maybe

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