We're gonna crunch those stats.

We're gonna talk about baseball, sticky stuff and torpedo bats.

We'll talk about it all.

If you want good takes on baseball in life,

just tune in to Ben and his lovely co-host ben and meg it's effectively wild

hello and welcome to episode 2398 of effectively wild a fancrafts baseball podcast brought you by our

patreon supporters i'm migrally of fan graphs and i'm jrown by ben limburg of the ringer ben how are you Effectively Wild, a fancrafts baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters. I'm a

rally of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you? I'm okay. How are you?

Except for like nine hours last night. So I feel great. As I told you off mic, I feel like at least

the third of my brain has grown back. And as I said, we can work with that. That's all we need to podcasts. You don't need your whole brain to podcasts. People have listened to podcasts. Yeah. You don't need, you don't even need that much. It's kind of a brainless activity for a lot of folks a lot of the time. We try to bring a rigor though to effectively wild,

an improved standard. Has it resulted in a massive Spotify deal for us? No, but, you know,

it has its benefits. It has its upsides. I work for Spotify, so I don't know if my deal is massive,

but I'll take it.

Anyway, we'll put our thinking caps on because we have some baseball to discuss.

And we will be joined by a second Ben, a little later on the pod.

On our last episode, we welcomed on Eric Lagenhagen to talk about this off-season's class of international professional free agents.

And this time, we will talk about the domestic ones.

Well, Ben also ranked the international ones, but we won't talk about them as much because

we already did that.

But we'll talk about this year's free agent class and some of the players Ben is higher

or lower on than the consensus and this year relative to past years and how the prospect of a work stoppage in a year looms over everything.

We'll get to that shortly.

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