Hey what's up everybody? Someone calling me the day of a space case

No step off here now, the big city I'm a square, got my mind wrapped up

Your superman is changing my back and my ghost again

Yeah, I was riding my ghost again

Oh, I'm back and my ghost again

Hello and welcome to episode 1825 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft space ball podcast brought to you by Patreon supporters, I'm Egg Rally of fancrafts, and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindberger of the Ringer

Ben, how are you?

I'm doing well, a little relieved to reach the end of an eventful week

Apologies to Tyler Anderson and Luke Voight, but there haven't been any additional huge moves that we have to discuss today

Although we did get a few tidbits about deals that we already discussed apparently a significant chunk of Freddy Freemans contract with the Dodgers is deferred over 2028 through 2040

Which is not unusual for the Dodgers, but evidently brings the real value of the deal down to about 140 million

Which is basically what the Braves were reported to have offered him over five years instead of six, so makes it even more curious really

We talked about that a little less time with the different tax rates in Georgia and California and how he ended up not really making much more money than he would have by taking that Braves deal

Seems like if anything, he may have made less in present-day dollars

So that whole situation, it's just surprising that it played out that way and there's a big buster-only feature about it in which Freemans is not quoted, but Chipper Jones is extensively quoted and other sources

And really sounds like this was not what Freemans set out to do or necessarily wanted to happen and things just played out this way

Yeah, I mean, well, I guess we should say like Chipper Jones also works for the praise

Yes, he does

Right, you know, there's that to the consider. I mean, I think that Freeman had been pretty clear from the jump that he wanted six years

I know that the deferral kind of complicates how we interpret that, but it sounds like he wanted six and Atlanta never offered him that

No, they didn't really reach out that extensively over the offseason prior to the lockout or even in the days following it

So I don't know man, he gets to the side where he wants to go and if feeling like he was in demand was important to him and he felt badly about not being offered that six years

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