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Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2506 of Effectively Wild.

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I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Doing well. Another day,

another trade. Nice to have something to banter about. Teams keep supplying us with a bit of material.

And today, it's the Cardinals and the Red Sox. Yep. Matching up on a sunny gray to Boston trade

in exchange for a muse of hours, maybe.

Richard Fitz, the right-handed pitcher whom we have only ever referred to as Richard,

and left-handed pitching prospect, Brendan Clark, and we have no funny nicknames for

or anything, but I'm sure he'll be fine too. And there's some interesting

money, salary stuff involved here. This trade, though, is, I think, less surprising and

easier to make sense of than the previous two major league deals that we talked about. The

Orioles and Angels trade with Taylor Ward and

Grayson Rodriguez and then the even more flummoxing, Brendan Nimmo and Marcus Semyon, Metz Rangers trade.

This one seems more straightforward to me.

Yeah, I mean, I'm debating if I want to make my crude little jokes.

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