just a couple of baseball names.

They'll still be speaking statistically,

rambling romantically pontificating, pedantically,

banter and bodily, drafting discerningly, giggling, Italy, equaling

effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2173 of Effectively Wild a Baseball

podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh

of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of fancraft's hello Meg.

Hello. Well it's time to talk about our favorite topic sports betting.

You know we just have no choice but to return to that well, that poisoned

well this time because we've got news, the big news in baseball. It's about

betting yet again. Now I guess there's good news and bad news.

Maybe from some perspective all of it could be good news from other perspectives all of it could be bad news but the

news is that a show hey ottoni's off the hook so that's something

Guess we can lead with that but that's not a big surprise given all of the developments that we have heard.

But I pay Mizuhara did plead guilty to bank and tax fraud charges in federal court. He will be sentenced in October.

And because of the thoroughness of the federal investigation,

MLB statement said that was made public, the information

MLB collected and the criminal proceeding being resolved without being contested,

MLB considers Shohay O'Tani a victim of fraud and this matter has been closed.

And O'Tani put out his own statement to say, now that the investigation has been completed,

this full admission of guilt has brought important closure to me and my family.

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