Hey everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinky.

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We're back.

Another year, another year going here.

We're going to be grinding out every day.

Pressure reporting on Monday night to this time. but usually we will be streaming live on Tuesdays. Fred, how was your offseason? I was good. Uh, really good. Probably did more writing this offseason than I've ever done before, which makes me well, uh, prepared to podcast and, you know, get ready for teams to, to reach spring training.

So I would say that I didn't really get much of a break from, I got break, I guess, from playing

fantasy baseball, as you, like I have to, but didn't get much of a break from baseball.

But I was totally fine with that, especially with the winter that I think even in America,

the winter that we're having. It's kind of relaxing and reminds me of warm weather during this winter that's been really cold up here in Canada to just think about baseball.

We had a wet Christmas, but it's very warm out here right now.

We got lucky as far as that goes.

The rest of the country, not so much.

Yeah.

No one wants to hear about

how i live a privileged life no we will move on from that we have big news to start today uh brendt well

what qualifies is big news it's a big transaction brendonovan is now a seattle mariner uh three-way

trade involving the raise cardinals and the mariners uh brendan donovan goes to Mariners. He'll probably be their third baseman because they have Cole Young at second base, but they have the flexibility if Young doesn't work out that they can pivot a little bit there. We're just talking yesterday, Paul Sporer and I were that we might see a lot of Colt Emerson at third base because they lost out in Ehu, Juanio Suarez. clearly they thought otherwise had this on the back burner ready to go Emerson at third base because they lost out an A, Juvenio Suarez. Clearly, they thought otherwise had this on the back burner ready to go.

Emerson could still factor in it second again, I suppose instead.

But this was an immediate response and it lengthens this lineup.

And I know you always like that term of art lengthening the lineup.

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