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Hello and welcome to episode 2062 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Pangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Pangraphs. Hello, Meg.

Hello.

If I sound especially jubilant today, it's because it's really a landmark day for me.

You know why listeners may remember, but probably won't unless they've set up a Google Alert to remind them about this.

That five years ago, five years ago, today, in fact, a tweet or a series of tweets was sent

that I have caused myself to recall, low these many years later.

We discussed this first, I believe, on episode 1960, back in late January,

because the Red Sox had acquired Adelbert O'Mondis, which gave me an excuse to bring up an exchange that occurred on Twitter this time in 2018

between Bill James and one at JMC underscore PGH about who had the better career outlook

who would end up with the most career war, Adelbert O'Mondis, or Shohei Otani.

And at JMC underscore PGH, sorry, I can't make that sound snappier, said,

I would bet a significant amount of money that Otani will be greater than Mondisi in career war,

because Bill James had tweeted that although Mondisi was not eligible for the rookie of the year award,

he seemed like Bill said, obviously, the best new player of the year.

And that was a year when Shohei Otani was a new player in Major League Baseball, at least.

And in response to that response, Bill said, Commissioner doesn't allow me to bet he was still working for the Red Sox at that time.

And I don't have a significant amount of money, but I'll graciously accept your apology in five years, and five years now have passed.

And the reply to his reply was fair enough, gentlemen's wager than it's rare that I find myself disagreeing with you.

And Bill said, we'll try to remember it. And I said, there is no try.

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