Hello, I'm Matt. How's it going? Good. Great. How are you doing good? Thank you. All right, let's

we're stuck. We're using our best material here. That's the best thing I've ever heard you say,

man. I was going to say Ben literally did just use his best material. Hey guys, I'm sitting

outside on the porch and I'm kind of close to a street and there are cars that go up and down

it occasionally. Unfortunately, my children are sleeping inside and I don't have a garage with a

Honda fit in it. So I hope I hope this is okay. If not, I can go inside and but I'd rather not.

No, this sound is fine. This is okay. And actually I have been recording this time, this whole time.

So maybe we just use it in which case. I guess we can start talking about real things.

I should introduce the show first. This is episode 75 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Linberg and in Long Beach, California.

He is similar. One of those two people you just heard is and we mentioned at the start of

this week that we would be trying to continue the daily show format, but that in order to do that,

when there is no baseball being played, we would have to rely on some help from our friends and

from you, not that you are not our friends. You are also our friends in a way. And so that's what we're

doing in this show. So we are joined by Matthew Corey, baseball prospectus author and podcast

host and over the monster blogger and writer on many sites. So thank you for joining us, Matthew.

Matt. Thanks. Thanks Ben. So we have brought Matt on for one because we like Matt and want to talk to

Matt, but also we were prompted by a listener question from Alex who sent us a question earlier

today and said, with the free agency date only two days away and or T's still not signed by the

socks, he might hit the free agency market. What do you think are the chances that he does?

The same situation happened last year, but then Boston offered him arbitration and eventually got

him signed. Do you think he goes anywhere or does he stay with Boston? Thanks. So we're going to talk

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