Good morning and welcome to episode 341 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectus. I'm Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. So I'm not generally a quick tempered man,

but on a day like today I get angry at baseball teams irrationally just for insisting on

doing everything at once. This was probably the biggest baseball news day of the year, right?

Has there been a bigger baseball news day? I don't know how you would measure baseball news

as a measurable thing, but it seems like it. I guess you could say that the day that we find out

who wins the World Series is the biggest baseball news day or a day with 15 games going on

is the biggest baseball news day compared to this, which is no games going on. But

I think a day when when 12 players names leak out of a PED investigation is pretty big.

Pretty big. More hot takes. Different kind of news. Uh-huh. Anyway, not really worth debating.

It's a big day. Yeah, a few hours ago, Kevin Goldstein posted on Facebook,

everyone in baseball trying to figure out why everything happened today.

Is there a reason? There's no reason, right? It's just a- it's just a confluence of events.

I don't know. I mean, it is- I think one thing that's interesting about this collection of moves

is that this is not the Blue Jays last year or the Marlins the year before or the Angels the

year before. This is not one team that like had a lot of money and went into this, determined to

throw their money around, and you know, made a big, made a big splash. This has been strangely

spread around. It seems as though every team has done something already. I guess- Yes, Daniel

Ress was counting earlier. I think he counted 14 teams made a transaction today.

Today, and many more over the last week, I can't think of anything, the Mariners have done,

and I can't think of anything, the Indians have done, but maybe I'm just forgetting.

But, um- Indians got David Murphy. Oh, yeah, that's right. They did.

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