Hey everybody welcome to rotawire Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinke.

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Fred, it's the hitters.

We regret adding a sort of podcast there.

We're looking forward to doing that.

We got a lot of negative injury news too, but there's some good stuff there.

How are your teams doing so far?

Actually, like pretty solid.

Like they're not running away with anything.

I feel like at this point in the year, if your team is in the top half of your league and is healthy, you're off to a good start. I like I've got plenty of Julio Rodriguez. So it's not like my teams are running away with things. And some Nick Kurtz. And we're going to discuss both of those players. I got lots of Cal Raleigh who hit his first homer of the season. So like I've got some underachievers. But overall, I'd say my teams are probably an average around fourth or so in their leagues, fourth or fifth. I think that's totally fine, a weekend, 10 days in, whatever, to be around that spot in your league and again have your key players still

healthy how about you how are your teams doing pretty good actually which is scary although

there's there's a couple that i have some regrets like the nfbc auction league i did i knew i was light

on starting pitching and then i lost ryan pepio and kirby eights before uh throwing even a for

one pitch uh so that that that was fun um so that that that that that that's a tricky thing there as well. Um, so yeah, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, but overall, I've got a lot of things. I have some regrets. I have some fomo. Uh, of course I have some fomo. Who doesn't have some some FOMO, but, you know, other than that, it's all good.

Let's jump right into the news. Lots of news going on here. Hunter Brown got put on, surprise placed on the IL yesterday.

Or actually, it was on, it was over the weekend. I take that back. And so we actually had time to try to, on Sunday, we tried to figure out who to bid on answer so far as nobody. But, you know, he's not going to throw for at least a couple of weeks. If he's your ace, and that basically, if you have him, he's probably is your ace, bad news. Yeah, absolutely. Also, the Astros are usually, you know, one of the least trusted teams when it comes right to injuries, Kyle Tucker, Yorda, Alvarez, etc. So they said they didn't even, it struck me as very Astros like they said he won't throw, excuse me, for a few weeks. And I was like, why can't you like teams usually put a number on that. Like he won't throw for three weeks or something.

You can always change it.

But they usually say he won't throw for three weeks or three to four weeks or something.

They said a few weeks.

Either way, let's say he doesn't throw for a few weeks.

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