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Hello and welcome to episode 24, 26 of Effectively Wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2426 of Effectively Wild.

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I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraffs, and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I am nourished by the sweet nectar of transactions providing us with off-season life and fodder to discuss.

Ah, our cup overfloweth, runneth over. Suddenly we have stuff to talk about. It's a nice change.

Yeah. I'm grateful for that. I am weirded out by your particular way of introducing the idea of it, but I am, I agree what, what deals

have been done, what transactions have transacted, this infield market, it's had a tad,

just when you thought we were going to have to do an episode on the Braves bringing back

Tyler Kinley. Fortunately, we have been obliged with a couple of big third base moves and some

interesting rumors and some fence dimension changes and more.

So I guess we can start with Alex Bregman, who is now a Chicago Cub.

A Chicago Cub.

How about that?

So it's a five-year $175 million deal.

That's a big number, but $70 million is deferred roughly.

So it's more like $150 million in present-day value.

So 30-ish annual value, roughly, on average. So what do you make of the

terms and the fit? The Cubs, they splurged. We talked last week about, hey, Cubs, you know,

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