Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, how can you not be pedantic about baseball?

If baseball were different, how different would it be?

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hello and welcome to episode 2255 of effectively wild a from Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.

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

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

Well, you are talking to us from Dallas.

I am.

The site of the winter meetings where the talk of the town is probably Cowboys Bengals on Monday night football.

But the talk of the specific part of the town that you are in currently is Juan Soto signing with the New York Mets.

So you're in Dallas.

I am not.

If we want to be pedantic about seasons, it's not actually winter yet, no matter where you are.

But you are meeting and I'm meeting with you.

So I'm partaking in the winter meetings by the transitive property, I suppose you could say.

And we are just going to talk about one Soto for the entirety of this episode.

This will be an oops all Soto episode. Not whoops. Or whoops Al Soto for the entirety of this episode. This will be an

oops all-soto episode. Not whoops. Or whoops al-soto. Not whoops s. I knew you would say it,

and I anticipated the question. However, it is raining here in New York, literally. And figuratively

speaking, Steve Cohen is making it rain because 756, a famous

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