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Good morning and welcome to episode 927 of Effectively Wild.

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and our supporters on Patreon. I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538 Hello, Ben, how are you?

Alright, great. Anything you wanted to chat about?

Well, there was a tweet from Peter Gammon's day.

I was going to read it. I was, yeah.

Well, that's great too because it's the tweet to those who didn't see it is Billy Bean, Colin, Quotation.

Rich Hill is the best pitcher in the league right now, period.

We would have no problem making him a qualifying offer, end quote, end tweet.

And really, to get Rich Hill and right now in the same tweet feels like fan service in a way.

It's like it's really like John Snow and Sansa being back in the same place or something.

Boy, that dog is sad.

Yeah, sad dog. Relax.

Okay, sad dog.

Alright, so yeah, that happened. That's a great tweet. That's a great quote.

Yeah, of course, Billy Bean has ulterior motives here with the trade deadline fast approaching

Rich Hill, one of the most attractive commodities available, but you know, to a little bit of a case that you can make.

It's not that huge a stretch to say that Rich Hill is the best pitcher in the American league right now.

By the way, we've never talked about this, but in the league, used to be in the league meant in his dog is so sad.

I don't know how to make it happy.

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