Hello and welcome to episode 1781 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Meg Rally of Fan Graphs

and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberger of the Ringer

Ben, how are you?

Quite well, how are you?

Well, I didn't get inducted into the Hall of Fame

but I am otherwise well

Yeah, seemed like everyone was

all of a sudden

six new inductees headlined by Bacconil and Minimignoso

Okay, not everyone

There were some deserving candidates who were left on the outside still looking in

It was generally, I guess, good news with still some frustrations

and it was kind of nice to have some Hall of Fame news that was largely not about the character class

Not that we can't have character class discussions

but it was a refreshing change just to talk about good characters in some cases

and players just judged on their merits as players

and we will actually devote most of our next episode to that

so didn't want to give it short shrift

we will have a guest on to talk to us about all of the new Hall of Famers

but we did want to spend this episode catching up on some pretty big news from last week

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