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Effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2445 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.

Not a ton of big baseball news in recent days.

Max Scherzer did indeed sign with the Blue Jays.

Chris Sale signed an extension with Atlanta, and Jacob Misovsky did not actually throw a hundred plus mile per hour pitch at or near the head of Brewer's top prospect Cooper Pratt. It was just some clever video editing.

So just a couple things we wanted to touch on, and then we're getting to our two previews.

And we're talking about two teams with strong starting rotations and red socks, one of which is actually called the Red Sox.

We'll be talking to Alex Spear of the Boston Globe called the Red Sox. We'll be talking to Alex Speer of the Boston

Globe about the Red Sox, followed by Cetrent Rosecrans of the athletic, about the former

red legs, the Cincinnati Reds. The item you wanted to bring to our banter today, Meg,

is some advice you have for top prospect in the sport, Connor Griffin,

and his receptiveness to an extension. And you're here to say, don't do it, Connor, sorry,

Pirates fans. You can't keep him. That's what you're telling Pirates fans.

I have to introduce a number of caveats, which is that this is a report that there is an openness,

an openness to extension talks on both sides. And that makes a tremendous amount of sense from

the Pirates perspective. And look, you should always take the call, you know? You should always

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