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effectively well. Hello and welcome to episode 2090 of Effectively Wild a Baseball

podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters I am Ben Lindbergh

of the ringer not joined today by my co-host

Meg Raleigh, who is wisely practicing what he preached last time, about the importance of

taking some time off for the holidays. I, however, have not heeded her advice.

It's the weekend after Thanksgiving and I'm showing my thanks by giving you this episode. Hope you like it.

I'm pretty sure you'll like the two great guests who have assisted slash enabled me today. You know on Friday Met's broadcaster Howie Rose briefly caused a stir by

tweeting hearing there might be Otani news today and then less than an hour later

but lots of likes and retweets later added operative terms might end today.

Hearing now it was premature.

No misdirection intended.

Well at least people are paying attention.

Don't worry how a premature transaction affects many men.

And yes, people are always paying attention to show

he otani as we often do on effectively wild and we could wake up every day and

say there might be otani news today I can promise you an otani segment on

this episode this is going to be an extremely

off-season edition of effectively wild folks hopefully in a positive way. To end the

episode we're going to discuss the end of life, specifically baseball players

lives with Sam Gage Jack.

Sam runs the blog R.I.P. Baseball, where he writes about every baseball player who dies,

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