Hey everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire fantasy baseball podcast.

Jeff Erickson here and here with my good friend.

In all of course,

is starting pitching rankings are up there.

Of course, you know, if you play in like simulation games, OOTP, he does a lot of good work with that as well.

And you read them on Twitter and Blue Sky at Sporer as well.

Paul, welcome. Thank you. Jeff, thank you so much for having me. Rookie move here, not having my water full, but I got my water cooler back there, so just popped it in there a little bit. Might have to hit a refill. We'll see how it goes. But thank you so much for having me on. You know, we were talking right before we started a week from, basically a week from right now, I'll be putting out the notice that the baseball season has started. Because as soon as that Super Bowl ends, it's official at that point. You know, it doesn't really end baseball never really ends for a lot of us. Folks listening to this and those of us in the content creation space. But I know a lot of people turn it off, especially if they're diehard football fans. I get it. But they all kind of come back incrementally during the football playoffs. And then once everything's done, everyone's back. The baseball diehards, the football diehards. And I can't believe we turn the calendar into February already. I really can't. I know. I have to actually turn my calendar. It's sitting up there on the wall there. It still says January. You got to bring that one. Yep. So that's great. By the way, folks,

don't worry, Scott Jensen will be here to be the more prepared half of this podcast than me.

He starts, he's just taking a little longer to get into baseball because he's still doing

football podcast. Still doing the DFS football podcast every Friday. So we're getting him going here on February 15th. So I will have a guest host to be named later next Sunday. Excite about that. Fred Zinke and I are going on Tuesday. You got James Anderson who's been going all. He doesn't stop. Neither does Eric

Alterman, Wednesday and Thursday, those guys. And then Clay and Todd are back on Fridays. We've got

the band back together. We are excited about that. It is this time of year. We're going to jump

right into the news that happened over the weekend before we do the new faces, new places thing

over in the American League. But the new faces, new places thing over in the American

League. But first of all, Paul, I'm so excited. A. E. E. Juvenio Suarez is a red. He's back.

He's back. He's back. Baby. What a fit. Great spot for him. You know, and I'm sure there was at least

maybe I don't want to project my feeling onto others. I had a brief moment of panic forgetting that Sal Stewart will be fine over there at first. This doesn't influence him because I know when Lux was traded out, the Sal Stewart heads, of which I am, I'm not one. I don't want to have stolen valor. I'm kind of late to the party, but I do know that they were

super excited that he was going to get a role. And then when this happened, I was like, wait a minute, does that bop him? But no, he just, Suarez is just going to be D.H. Stewart can still play first and then Cabrizi over at third. And this team is, is coming along. I really like your Reds. I know, you know, the trials and tribulations of dealing with them and maybe some unmet expectations, but they rallied last year, made a playoff spot. I think they're moving in the right direction. And if this talent that they have in-house can really take a step forward, somebody like a Matt McLean comes around, the aforementioned South Stewart, more out of Ellie and Noel Vei, plus the pitching studs.

They could be something big.

I like the Suarez pickup, get that veteran right in the middle of the lineup, the only guy over 30 because I think Friedel is actually 30.

And now you're starting to put together a really full team here.

I like it in CINC.

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