If baseball were different, how different would it be?

And if this thought haunted dreams, well stick around and see what Ben and Meg have to say philosophically and pedantically it's effectively

while Wild, 9 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcast from Fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangrafts.

Hello Meg.

How are you? I am, well, I'm fine, Ben. I'm nervous about how the Washington Huskies will fare in the

National Championship game, but that is a sport that you don't care about.

So, I don't have strong opinions on that one. Can't really banter about that topic unfortunately.

However, just say go Huskies Ben you can just say go

huskies you'll alienate the Michigan fans who listen to our podcast but you'll make a

friend of me. Maybe I should say go Michigan so that we can please everyone who's rooting for someone in this game.

I guess that's fair.

Don't want to drive away anyone.

Yeah, they can both go. They can come, they can go as far as I'm concerned. Makes no difference to me.

However, we do have a bit of banter about a pair of transactions. There hasn't been a ton of news since the last time we talked, but both Dodgers West and Dodgers East have been active with signings for the Dodgers, the actual Dodgers, as well as the Mets who aspire to be like the Dodgers someday but

what team doesn't I suppose especially after yet another signing by the Los Angeles

Dodgers this time to Oscar Hernandez is putting on the

Dodger Blue. This would have been a big deal for you in the free agent

contracts over under draft's results if Otani hadn't already blown up your

draft boards because I believe you took the under on NOP trade remers prediction for

Teosker Hernandez which was a robust 80 million.

I think they thought he was going to get maybe a four-year deal for 80 million.

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