They'll still be speaking statistically, rambling romantically, pontificating pedantically, banter and bodily, drafting discerningly, giggling, giddling, giddly, equalling, effectively wild.

Hello, and welcome to episode 2420 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs.

And I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, Ben.

How are you, buddy?

Happy to have you back.

Welcome back.

Thanks. Thank you.

Hope the weekend the mountains was restorative.

It was, you know, it's so quiet up there. You can hear the

river. There was snow. There was snow on Christmas. Oh, nice. Yeah, we got snow the day after Christmas,

which was not perfect but close. It's been snowy a lot lately, which I very much appreciate.

Awesome. Nice to have you back. Thanks.

And we're going to do some stories that we missed in 2025, as we do at the end of every year.

Yeah. We have not missed too many transactions. Well, you missed some while you were in the mountains,

but we didn't miss too many

major ones here at Effectively Wild, though you missed the windfall that Morikami's contract

gained you in the free agent contracts over underdrafts, just catapulted you from negative

territory to a commanding lead. Yeah, I, you know, look how they massacred my boy.

I feel bad.

Last year, it was so nice, you know, because I was down big, which felt not good.

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