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Hello and welcome to episode 2252 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg

of the Ringer. Ben, how are you? Now was your Thanksgiving? It was nice. And you know what? My Thanksgiving did not

include. I consumed plenty of food, but I did not consume a single Juan Soto trade rumor or signing rumor, that is.

There probably haven't been any trade rumors as he is not currently under contract with a team. But I have successfully avoided imbibing

any Wandsoto related rumor. Now, I have seen illusions to rumors. It's one of those, everything I

have learned about Wandsoto rumors has been against my will. Just from general browsing, you know, I'm in our Patreon Discord group or our Facebook group

and maybe someone alludes to something.

And I kind of catch snippets as if I'm walking down hot stove street and I'm just catching little

fragments of conversations that are happening around me.

But whenever I see that it pertains to a

one-soto signing rumor, I do not pursue that. And so I have not really actually comprehended a

complete one-soto rumor. I knew that there was something involving with the Red Sox and like

something about apartments or sisters. Like I saw sentence fragments and I did not

investigate any further and I still don't really know what it was regarding. I get the sense that

there were some not entirely trustworthy, credible sources floating something or other out there

because I saw the Jeff

Passon tweet where he sort of snarkly on Thanksgiving said he was thankful for

people who don't make up rumors, right? So I knew that there was some sort of smoke out

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