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in my own, in my own. Hello and welcome to episode 2138 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our

Patreon supporters. I'm I'm a rally of fan graphs and I am joined by Ben Lemberger the ringer. Ben how are you?

I'm deeply appreciating A.J Preller.

Yeah. We're gonna miss him when he's gone.

Yeah. I'm almost rooting for We're gonna miss him when he's gone.

Yeah.

I'm almost rooting for the Padres at this point

just to preserve his job security,

just so that he can keep his job and keep surprising us at every turn.

I'm just constantly shocked and we shouldn't be shocked

by anything A.J.

Does because at this point we should have learned our lesson.

But man, that guy, he will just pull a trade or a signing out of his sleeve

that we will never see coming.

I think that if I had been asked to rank my potential landing places for Dylan Cease, that I don't know that

San Diego would have been in my top five candidly. And yet Dylan Cease is a San Diego Padre.

He is not currently in South Korea, but will be soon.

So there you go.

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