Hello and welcome to episode 1813 at Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from

band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Mingberg, Oscar Winger,

Joined Ben Meg Raleigh at Band Graphs. Hello Meg! Hello! How are you today? I'm postponed

to March 5th at the earliest. Just for my sprint. Yeah. I'm actually in a great mood

today not because Spring Training was officially postponed which just made

official something we really knew was happening already. There does seem to be a

bit of optimism on the bargaining front just in that the two parties are

planning to meet pretty frequently next week it sounds like and according to

Jeff Passon he tweeted, one of the things that struck me for months now is a

majority of industry people believe a deal could come together very quickly and

that things will accelerate at the end of February. So we'll see. There were

industry people who were optimistic about a deal getting done before now but I'll

hope it's not lost yet. However that is not why I'm in such a good mood today.

I'm in a good mood today because we've got a good draft on tap here. I'm pretty

excited about this one. It is a good draft. Can I express trepidation about it

slightly? Sure. Mostly I this is going to be so much fun and I'm looking forward to

it but I find myself struggling to come up with like a grand unified theory of

this draft in terms of what I'm prioritizing. So I struggled with that and I

imagine you know we we have sort of a set list of things that we can draft so

there's that but I think that we might look back on this draft and think what

Meg what were you going for here? What was your what were your objectives? What

did you what did you think was good? So you know there's that but I've done a

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