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Hello and welcome to episode 2283 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcasts from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

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

Oh, hello.

We will be joined by two other friends shortly.

We're doing two more previews today.

We'll have Sahad of Sharma talking to us about the Cubs,

followed by Grant Brisby talking to us about the Giants. And all we have to do before we get to

those previews is talk about a couple signings. We have one player leaving the Red Sox, one player

joining the Red Sox, last big free agent off the board.

We can close the book, sadly for me, on the effectively wild offseason free agents over under contracts draft.

Alex Bregman is off the board finally.

He has signed with the Boston Red Sox.

I would just like to note how... the board finally he has signed with the Boston Red Sox.

I would just like to note how modest, how beneficent I am being, how humble in victory,

despite the fact that if one wanted to pay attention to the margin of my victory, one could be quite sassy. But I'm not going to do that. I'm a, I'm a Brinmar gal, Ben. And at Brinmar,

we were bound by a strict honor code, one that encouraged competition with oneself, you know, over

those around them so that you understood your learning, your education, your advancement

through the world as a process of personal self-esteem building, the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, not to measure

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