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Hello and welcome to episode 2421 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.

Well, not much news in the baseball worlds, nor should there be in this week when most people are taking it easy.

Only the angels are making headlines and their're pretty small print headlines. They signed

Kirby Yates and also they did indeed restructure Anthony Rendon's deal. So he is done. And I'm,

I'm disappointed. Not that he's redone, but also that the deal, they have restructured it such that the deferrals will only run for

three to five years i think and i was anticipating the prospect of rendone day running for decades

hence and sadly half a decade at most i mean not sadly for Angels fans, probably, but I was planning to

savor Rendon Day every year for the rest of our natural lives, but they worked it out so

that it will not linger that long. I think that's for the best, you know? Sometimes it's,

it's just, it's good to be able to move on, you know, you want to be able to get on with... Yeah, especially from a contract like that. I think probably both parties have some incentive to move on with their lives.

It just didn't work out the way anyone hoped or anticipated and has gotten increasingly burdensome and nasty.

And it's good for everyone to be able to part ways.

Well, we have a whole other league's worth of missed stories to get to. The only thing I wanted

to say, I'm concerned about Kalshi. Are you familiar with the various prediction markets,

polymarkets, Kalshe, et cetera?

They are places where you can go and you can bet on the outcomes of things.

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