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effectively wild.

That's effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2130 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm a gallea fangraf's

and I am joined by Ben Lumburg of the ringer Ben how are you? Doing all right, how are you?

I'm all right.

We got some closure on Cody Bellinger.

It's about time.

We have some closure on Cody Bellinger.

We have the potential for a reopening in due time. But yes, we have

for now closure on Cody Belanger. Yes, the matter is at least temporarily settled because Cody Bellinger has signed with the Chicago Cubs for three years and

80 million dollars although as you're alluding to there are multiple opt-outs in this deal so it's really a few one-year deals in a row.

He gets to decide whether he wants to stay after the first year after the second year.

It's a 30- 20 structure now here's one thing we know

this is another devastating blow to you in the off season free agent contracts draft.

It is. We knew that this was likely to be the winning move.

Right.

We didn't really fight over the first overall pick in the over under draft but I think we both knew that or at least

suspected strongly that this estimate was optimistic.

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