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Episode 2353 of Effectively Wild

Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. Hello, Meg. Hello. Also with us is Other Ben, the secondary Ben of the many Ben's and the constellation of effectively wild. Ben Clemens of Fangraphs. Hello, Ben. Hello, secondary. That's great. I was worried I might be tertiary. How's it going to? Yeah. Well I'm not going to give you primary. Well, primary is out of play. So I'm playing for second is what all of us other bends are doing.

Ben Alpha. Yeah, there are so many bends in contention that being number two on that list, this podcast is concerned. That's pretty impressive. And you've earned it. And you have earned it

through your many appearances on this podcast, but also through your labors this week with your

fourth crack at the Fangraph's annual trade value series. So you have completed that labor yet again.

And you have done your trade value chat at fangraphs.com.

And now you do your trade value chat on effectively wild, though we can do a bit of banter before we get to that.

But congrats on yet again rolling that stone up the hill.

Thank you very much.

It's already tilting back down for next year.

Yeah. No. It is, you know, I'm very happy that I get to do this. It's pretty cool. I'm always very

exhausted at the end of it. I wrote 25,000 words this week, I think I figured out. That's just a lot of

words. But, you know, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

If Meg took it away from me, I'd probably cry.

I won't.

You're too easy of an edit for me to contemplate doing that.

Man, you put together your four trade value series.

That's $25,000 per pop.

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