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Hello and welcome to episode 793 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus presented by the Plan Decks baseballreference.com

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538 joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus.

Whoa!

Yep.

The other day when we said that Kentamidas contract would definitely have an opt out what we met was his physical definitely had irregularities.

So does the fact that his physical head irregularities explain this contract to your satisfaction?

Depends how irregular must be pretty darn irregular.

It must look right.

Like the like R.A. Dickie levels of irregularity.

Which I mean at this point in one's life it's hard to imagine like why what would even matter?

Like if you could see like if you could if the doctor could point go yep that's the one threat it's hanging by one threat.

Literally one thread and it's about to burst then I could see but like if they just if they open it up and they're like oh wow that's interesting he's got the elbow of a goat.

Who cares at this point he's 28 years old he's been pitching forever like it wouldn't matter it's not like if a if R.A. Dickie were a free agent and no one knew about his thing and all of a sudden he went to go sign a deal and they're like oh wow whoa you don't have a UCL then I don't think a team would go oh well.

Can't touch him now 43 43 years oldness 7000 innings under his belt can't touch him now so it feels like the only thing that I could see being a valid irregularity would be that he's right on the brink of I mean that it seems very obvious and very clear that he's right on the brink of it like maybe he is Greg Holland right.

Yeah but even then even then it's it didn't show up last year unless it I mean so far as I can tell it didn't show up in his stats last year and even then why would you sign an eight year deal if you were if you were him right when you when you wait all right if it's anything they could be rehabbed you would wait yeah or even corrected via surgery yeah I mean yeah sorry rehabbed or a fixed I meant to say yes it was anything they could be fixed yeah you would wait you you do a one year.

You do a one year you'd either sit out a year or you'd at the very most maybe sign like a two year one of those two year injury contracts that these guys all sign where somebody pays for their rehab and then they play the second year for them so I guess the answer your question is no.

Okay I mean what there's a secret opt out.

What could it possibly like every like your has some sort of damage in his arm you always hear that that there's fraying or wear of some kind so maybe his is more extreme than the typical pictures but you're right if that's all it is I don't know I wouldn't advise signing in it your deal unless you think it's all downhill from here unless it's some kind of degenerative

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