Hey, everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Jeff Erickson here.

And I'm here with our special guest host, good friend Derek Van Riper, friend of the company,

friend of the fantasy community, host of Rates and Burials.

Obviously, you know him over at the Athletic.

You follow them on on Blue Sky at DVvr dvr thanks for joining me today hey thanks for having me jeff i think this is

my first appearance since the logo change so i still like that purple the new purple logo like

i sometimes i think i'm on a yahoo page like that's the thing that always does to my brain I'm still not used to it there's a little bit of likelihood and confusion there I can get that a little bit there it's just uh it's the yeah the color scheme is similar I like the purple because you know obviously you can look at my background and see why but uh you know at the same time I it was a change it was but you, first time we'd had a logo change in maybe 15 years,

so it was probably overdue for that. How often a week are we doing rates and barrels? How often

can people listen to you? Five episodes for me, and we've got Starkville on Saturdays now. They

just had Joey Votto on this weekend, talking about what he's been doing in retirement, which is,

if it's more interesting than you could even guess.

And we know Joey Votto compared to the average ball player lives life to the fullest, has a lot of great ideas and takes.

And yeah, he's really, he's enjoyed it since retiring.

Yeah, good.

Well, I listen to you as much as I can, you and Eno, and I don't listen to too many other podcasts because my bandwidth gets full. And I listen to the football podcast with Robert. He's fantastic. Robert and Derek and, you know, and David, they're, they're fantastic as well. So that fills my plate off when I'm going on walks, my dog Harley. So there you go. It's always when I've been listened to a non-roto wire product, that's what I'm listening to. We're a great dog walking companion. That's our whole whole network. That's what we're there for. Indeed. Let's jump right into it. A lot of news. Let's start off the Toronto Blue Jays. We've had nothing but bad luck all season. And they had two huge, you know, players get hurt today. It doesn't look like there'll be huge injuries necessarily, but Blaguerreiro first got hit by a pitch. Actually, he was the second one of those. Got hit by a pitch on the elbow immediately left the game, went for some imaging. It looks like it's going to be okay, no fracture, but we'll see on that dylan cease but the hamstring injury he made like

three pitches after the injury and then left the game again it looks like it's more cramping than anything

else but when that's the two most vital players on the team that that's pretty scary yeah i mean we know

the american league's kind of a mess so far this year so a slow start hasn't been as devastating for the Jays as it

could have been in a typical year. But if they're going to rally back, they're going to be the team

that makes a deep run, gets back to the World Series again, Vlad's got to be healthy. Seas has to be

healthy, right? Their margin for error is relatively small. I think the early indications are good news

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