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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, hour four of our radio program and Splish Splash.

The Red Sox making a big old splash in free agency.

The last big name left on the market goes to Boston, but he's a former Rocky.

Will Trevor's story have a happy story or a sad story?

Will he flourish at Finway?

We'll talk about the latest edition to the Boston Baseball Club.

We'll get to that right now.

Here it is our number four.

It is a new chapter in the story.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mallor show, and we are side by side in the air everywhere as we rattle cages coast to coast, border to border, and beyond, on the vast and ferociously powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the track, the warning track of sports chat,

the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the Northwoods.

And we are back at it again this hour in the March madness festivities down to the Sweet 16.

The free agent signings in baseball have my attention. Oh, in this hour. the March madness festivities down to the Sweet 16.

The free agent signings in baseball have my attention, though. In this hour, we welcome in the boardroom, our lead this hour coming from a free agency in baseball.

Another one bites the dust.

Trevor's story.

Last high profile free agent agreeing to terms.

If you did not see this because you were busy,

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