Good morning and welcome to episode 91 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast in New York, New York. I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach,

California joining me from the Honda Fit is Sam Miller. Hello Sam. Hi Ben. So today

is my day to bring the topic and you exerted some pressure earlier on me. You tried to

tamper with the process of picking podcast topics and I caved and I have

brought the topic that you strong armed me into bringing. So we are going to

talk about BJ Upton signing with the Braves. Oh good because I saw something on

this on Twitter. I saw that something in half a week. Yes. But I didn't see any of the

actual news. So I look forward to you. You set me up. So yeah, there was a development

in that he signed with Atlanta whom he had been connected to pretty much all

of season. And we heard that he was there. Top target and it made sense for him

to be their top target probably. And they acquired the target for what was what

were the terms five year seventy five. That's exactly right. Well that's exactly what

was reported. Yeah. So was there anything in particular that you wanted to start

off by talking about? What did you think of it? It seems just about right to me. I don't

know that it's an incredible bargain and I don't think it's an overpay. It seems like

about what what BJ Upton should be worth. I think I'm okay with it. So that's not

interesting at all. So there are a few things about this deal that are interesting to me

because of the kind of uncertainty that they introduce. Yeah. It's interesting. I'll

just go through the three of them one at a time. One is that there actually is quite

a wide range of opinion about what BJ Upton has actually done. There's often a wide range

of opinion about what players are going to do. But in fact, I would say that BJ Upton

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