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hello and welcome to episode 2430 of effectively wild Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you

our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. Ben,

how are you? Oh, I'm anticipating all the trade talk that we're about to have. Trade, trade, trade, trade, trade.

Not quite that many, but at least three. Just a ton of trades to talk about.

Trades are wild, effectively wild.

Both New York teams have been busy since we last spoke.

And Texas, too, not to be left out of the action.

I'm not forgetting about you, Mr. McKenzie Gore, neck and neck with Freddie Peralta in

Fangraph's War over the past two seasons.

So that is not a slight.

But last time we had very few transactions to talk about.

The time before that, we had too many transactions to talk about today.

We might too.

So the stove, it giveth, it taketh away.

It really depends on the day.

I always wonder, by the way,

this is more of a meta musing here. But when I have non-transaction related, more general thoughts,

and also have transactions to talk about, which would be better to begin with, which would be the better lead? Are we

burying the lead if we make the Mets and McKenzie and Cody Bellinger wait? Or is it better to

ease into that with some more general interest talk before we get to the transactions? I don't

know. After all these years, I don't know what our

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