You know I could just go on

I'll forgive you and just keep on keeping on

It's not like I don't have good reason

But you are

Well season after season

Hello and welcome to episode 1926

Effectively wild a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Lembert of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs

Hello Meg. Hello. And we are both pleased to be joined by

Other Ben, Ben Clemens of Fan Graphs. Hello Ben.

Hey Ben, how's it going?

Going well. So this is our first episode of the off season

I suppose we don't stare out the window and wait for spring around here

We just keep podcasting so we've got free agents, we've got GM meetings, we've got non-tenders, we've got qualifying offers, we've got awards voting results

We'll be with you through all that and everything that comes after that, the winter meetings, the hall of fame season, arbitration, etc.

I'm teasing arbitration as if that is something super exciting

It's exciting that it will be completed before the season starts

Yeah and speaking of the season starting we'll take you all the way up to pictures and catchers reporting in mid February

And spring training games starting in late February and the world baseball classic in March

And then March 30th, opening day and then we'll do it all over again

The cycle begins anew and we'll make time for lots of nonsense and interesting conversations and silliness and emails and stat bless along the way

As usual, just for those of you who are new to the show, we do not stop, we don't even change our schedule

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