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Hello and welcome to episode 2315 of Effectively Wild

Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs.

Hello, Meg.

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So we finally have answers about what it was the persuaded Roki Sasaki to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

All the other teams that are wondering what they did wrong, what could they have done to have him come to their team instead.

Now they know it was about the bidet's.

That's what it was about.

This is according to the OC Register, according to Bill Plunkett, Stan Kasten, Dodgers president and CEO, says during our first meeting with Roki,

we were telling him about the project we had ongoing to upgrade our clubhouse and facilities.

I was telling him about all the amenities we were adding.

We're going to have this and this and this.

And he asked, are you going to have Japanese-style toilets?

And Kasten asked Sasaki if that would actually have some bearing on his decision, if having his preferred type of toilet could convince him to sign.

And Sasaki said, now it sounds like a joke, but for me, it's pretty important.

And he said that their willingness to make changes for his comfort and his fellow player's comfort was definitely a factor.

I'm sure it had nothing to do with all the other Japanese superstars on the roster and

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