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Hello, and welcome to episode 2433 of Effectively Wild, the 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.

I think we have hit the low ebb for baseball news.

There comes a point in every offseason where things slow down considerably and

podcasters are reduced to poking the few remaining free agents with a stick saying,

come on, do something and counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report.

And it's not many days, by the way, not many days to count down.

And then they do report. And we remember that nothing really actually happens when they report.

And then we go back to counting down the days until games begin. And then we remember that

spring training games aren't all that interesting after you watch a maybe. Maybe they could be background if they're on.

And then we resort to counting down the days until opening day,

except this year we can count down the days to the BBC, and that's fewer days.

And this was a note of optimism that I struck at the start of the offseason, just,

hey, this is going to be a short

offseason, because it's already November, and opening day is a day earlier than ever. And also,

there's the WBC. So there's just a little less time to wait. And it's true. And so I'm grateful for that.

Yeah. I guess. Mom. Your mileage my very, I mean, I'm grateful for that. Yeah. I guess, mom.

Your mileage, my very...

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