Hello,

Hello, and welcome to

Hello, and welcome to episode 2411 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, rejoined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs, who is in lovely Orlando

for the MLB Winter Meetings, where as we speak on Monday afternoon, no major moves have happened except for Jeff Kent into

Cooperstown. And even Jeff Kent is not actually moving to Cooperstown, presumably. Just a plaque

of Jeff Kent will be hopefully a good likeness, but we'll see. I cannot believe how disrespectful

you're being to Mike Soroka. I just like, I'm offended on behalf of his entire family.

I had a whole little Mike Zeroga thing planned.

And you were just like, doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter.

It's a big league deal, Ben.

You have no respect for a big league deal.

But yes, it has been quiet so far.

Yes, I was going to say it was going to blow up your spot because before we hit

record, you were bemoaning the lack of moves.

So you're not exactly Miss Mike Soroka appreciator either.

Yeah, I mean, I'm here for a good joke, as we all know.

And I now desperately need them to trade for Mike Sorota,

which, you know, unlikely, given that he's a Dodger now. But give me a Soroka-Sorota matchup.

I believe that Soroka is actually going by Michael Soroka Sarota matchup. I believe that Soroka is actually going by Michael Soroka, which perhaps indicates that he

doesn't like all of our little jokes, but I'm going to keep enjoying the Mike Soroka potential.

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