Hello, it's fair game, even Kee's dirty pants.

And maybe if you're lucky, we'll co-call by the chance.

You never know precisely where it's going to go.

By definition, effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2355 of Effectively Wild, a 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.

So our plan today is mostly to do some emails, keep it pretty evergreen in advance of the trade deadline so that we don't get scooped so that this is not instantly obsolete.

It will be, well, it'll be immediately obsolete, I guess.

That's our plan.

Just pre-render it obsolete by avoiding most of the news entirely.

And then at the end of the week on Friday, we will circle back and we'll do a trade deadline

debrief about whatever happens.

I do have one pre-trade deadline thought, which is we've talked a little bit about how it seems

like it might be a slow deadline.

Last year was sort of slow in terms of the stars and top prospects traded and some similar conditions this year.

Of course, as I say that, there'll be some massive move.

I don't feel like I can predict these things with any great accuracy.

But as we sit here a couple days before the deadline, doesn't seem

like it's shaping up to be one of the most eventful. And one of the reasons for that is that

you have this parody, you have no great teams, you have, well, a couple terrible teams, but there

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