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Hello and welcome to episode 2099 of Effectively Wild,

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Patreon supporters. I am the Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of

fancrafts. Hello, Meg. Hello. Well this is a podcast where we talk about Shohai Oh Tani and the Dodgers every day.

Now I know the first part of that is nothing new particularly for this podcast, but does seem like those two keep making moves together and making

news for us to discuss whether it's acquisitions trades press, revelations about dogs' names.

I feel like we got closure on a lot of the questions that we had about

Otani's contract and the negotiations and how he ended up here.

We know his dog's name now.

We don't know his surgery's name, oddly.

That'll be the next thing, although his doctor called it Tommy John, but he and his agent insist it's not quite Tommy John. It's Tommy John adjacent. Anyway, we did get answers to most of our other questions about specific clauses in his deal and what the timeline was so is there anything that struck you as particularly interesting or surprising or anything that's still on your mind?

Well, I think that if we were looking for a free agent signing, marking sort of a new era of disclosure in the Otani saga. This was maybe a point in the opposite direction.

Obviously we did learn the name of the dog and that is clearly the most

important thing and to your point like we have heard directly from Otani's

physician so we have some sense of the surgery he had but you know I think that there was a sense among some that like

because he would be removed from the negotiation process because he would have made his decision he's putting on the

Jersey he has the cap that we might get more direct answers and we did get some answers but you know he didn't really want to give much in the way of insight into the other teams he spoke to what was maybe compelling or not about their offers and how they positioned

his place in their organizations. You know we had this sort of like funniness around the

surgery thing so like that you, I'm not alarmed by that,

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