Take me to the diamond, lead me through the turnstile, shower me with data that I never thought to compile now we're freely now a scorecard with a cracker

jacket of smile. Effectively wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2264 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

Well, it sounds like you have perhaps picked up a cold, but I am doing great.

Travel cold, holiday cold, a cold of vague and unknown provenance, but a cold nonetheless.

But we're doing okay. I sound worse than I feel. I feel mostly tired.

Okay. That's not so bad. Well, our holiday travels are concluded.

We're both at home.

We've got our home field advantage going again.

I'm never leaving again.

You say that.

When I say that, I might mean it.

But you actually have to leave your house at times.

But happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

To you and to our listeners. And thanks for following us

from 2024 into 2025. It's been a slow news period in baseball and just in general, as

tends to happen at this time of year. But we've got some stuff to catch up on. Sure. And we have a minor league for agent

draft to do early next week. So that's, yeah, that's coming soon. Something I look forward to.

Me too. Yeah, a lot of good stuff on the docket. And we will do some emails sometime soon.

Today, we don't usually do some sort of like gimmicky New Year's resolutions for every team

kind of thing.

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