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Hello and welcome to episode 2269 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

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

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

So it's arbitration season, which is not among the more exciting news cycles, I would say.

But every now and then, I get like a minor heart attack because I see Jeff

Passon tweet about some major player who signed a contract and I'm like, oh, oh, it was just,

yeah, they signed a deal to avoid arbitration. That's not exciting at all. That's expected. I mean,

okay, now we know they're not going to ARB. They're not going to go to a

hearing, but I'm always thinking, oh, was there a huge extension or wait, free agent signing or someone

changed teams or something? No, it's not that. I'm sure a lot of people who get those notifications

are probably confused by it. And probably also a lot of people who are just confused by the

arbitration process in general,

which is understandable, probably see those alerts and think,

Terrick Scoobel signed a $10 million contract for one year.

He just won a Cy Young Award.

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