From W.HYYYY and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hittance season of Philadelphia Phillies podcast. My name is Justin Clue. I write for baseball prospectus and Billy Penn. And with me is Liz Rocher of Yahoo Sports. Hello, Liz. Hello, Justin. I almost said baseball reference. That's why I paused there. I've just been doing

a lot of research lately, and I almost said I write for baseball reference, but I don't, I do not

do that. That would be a tough job for me, a lot of numbers. That's numbers, yeah, that's just

numbers, really. Yeah, but we just wanted to make sure we got an episode in today, update you on some

happenings across the league, mainly just the one big happening that has apparently been

wrapped up before the holidays.

And then just we wanted to make sure we thanked everybody, all our listeners, for another

year of your awesome support here at Hitton Season, as well as our other shows available on the Hitton Season Patreon.

And also to appreciate you for voting for us for the Sports Podcast Awards.

This podcast has been nominated as a finalist for best baseball podcast, which I think we all agree

is true. But so that we can say that we weren't just nominees, we would appreciate it if you

went to the sports podcast group's website. The link is in the tweet at the top of my Twitter

profile at Justin underscore Clue. And you can vote for us there. We would appreciate your support, just as we always do.

Thank you so much.

That being said, we will get to some league news here.

Yamamoto, the Japanese pitcher who has been the most sought after free agent after

the show Hayotani negotiations were finalized.

That deal has also been wrapped up.

That deal is also with the Dodgers and also massive, Liz.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Liz, first thoughts about this deal finally happening?

Well, about five minutes after my husband read me a tweet that says,

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