If baseball were different, how different would it be on the case with light rippin,

all analytically, cross-check and compile, find a new understanding, not effectively while how can you not be

pedantic yes when it comes to baseball how can you not be

pedantic hello and welcome to episode 2106 of

effectively wild a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our

Patreon supporters I'm Meg rally of fangrass and I am joined by Ben Lumburg of the

Ringer. Ben, happy new year. How are you? Happy new year to you. Welcome back and

also happy season when we can finally say last year when we refer to last season and it's okay and even if you're

pedantic about it.

Yeah our brief but recurring National Nightmare is over and here we are in the year of our Lord 2024 with

last season firmly in the rearview. Thank you. Exactly. Yeah.

So the GM's and the Poboos mostly abided by your wishes, not entirely when it came to taking the

holidays off. They took them off to the extent that you did not have to make your mom mad by editing and publishing anything for fan

Crafts. So that was the important thing. Maybe that's just a reflection of there aren't that many major

free agents left or moves to be made that would merit a holiday post. Right. Right.

Because there were some signings and some trades and we can catch up on the

backlog of those today but none of them really rose to the level at least

individually of okay I gotta slack someone and get them on this immediately.

Well I mean you you deputized our good friend Craig Goldstein I'm given to understand to talk about the the transaction most proximate to the holiday week that

would have required bothering people with the Dodgers signing of Yamamoto in

case anyone was wondering,

like it for the Dodgers.

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