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Good morning and welcome to episode 997 of Effective Lewild, the daily podcast from baseball

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I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer. Hello Ben. Hello. We got appointments with people.

So we should probably not banter. I don't know. Do you have any banter? Did you have anything you need to talk about?

Well, this might be too in depth for a banter. I was just reading our friend Will Leach's list of the 10 biggest sports stories of the year.

He had the Cubs winning the World Series as the top sports story of the year. It seems pretty indisputable that the Cubs winning the World Series are the top sports story of the year.

Obviously there are people who just don't care about a baseball team no matter what. But I think in the larger conversation that makes sense.

I was just trying to think of when baseball last had the top sports story of the year. I don't know whether anything comes to mind immediately.

But yeah, the Mitchell report. I mean, I don't remember what else happened that year. But I don't know what year was the Mitchell report.

I think it was like 2007. So I don't know. I would guess that might be it. I think that the 2001 World Series probably would qualify.

Yeah, that might be it. Of course, the McGuire race, the McGuire-Sosa race would have been. Yeah, it's hard to know without knowing everything else that was.

Going on 2004, what competes with the Red Sox in 2004. Yeah, maybe that's it. Can we talk about this after? I have people waiting. It's a work day.

Okay. All right. So Ben, I don't know if you saw this, but after Edwin and Karnascion signed with the Indians, there was a some headline that the A's had made an offer that had been rejected. I think maybe they had even offered more.

It's interesting that it seems to me that the A's lead baseball in second place free agency finishes like like relative to how many free agents they sign.

It seems like we hear about every free agent they almost sign. And I wonder if it's because Worge is interested in the A's generally and they don't sign that many players.

And so it's interesting that they would be bidding for players when they sign so few expensive players. But anyway, I guess that's not really appropriate topic either.

But I started thinking about the A's depth chart. And so I mean, all these moves of the last, if you look at the A's transactions of the last few months, I hadn't really kind of thought of them as a group.

But like they they traded Danny Valencia, who was one of their better hitters last year and you know, but is also Danny Valencia, they traded him, they released Billy Butler, they traded Chris Coglin last summer.

They traded, of course, Josh Reddick for a bunch of young pitchers. They traded Coco Chris, the player that they got for Coglin, Erasmindy Al Contra was released.

And that's pretty much it. Like that's their transactions. And then they have one signing that will probably end up bringing up in a few minutes. But this leaves a depth chart that I was really struggling as I walked around this morning to fill in in my head.

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