Welcome to Rates and barrels Monday, July 22nd.

Derek and Riper here, Inoceris on vacation.

So I am flying with guests this week.

And I brought in a good friend of mine. Jeff Erickson, senior editor from Rotowire. We hosted

XM shows together for a long time. A few podcasts along the way. Jeff, how you doing? Thanks for

joining me. CBR. I'm great. Always good to reconnect. We try to do this once a year basically on one of our

respective podcasts. So happy to do this. Fun to talk baseball anytime. Yeah, the reunion shows are

always great. And as we do most Mondays, we'll talk about some fantasy baseball news you should know

since the real world is keeping a lot of people occupied. It's nice to just have a little diversion that's different from that. So we have injuries to talk about, actually a lot of injuries. It was a bad weekend for injuries. That might be the thing you missed if you were caught up in the rest of the news. We'll talk about how we try to make up ground in the second half of the season, the types of players we're targeting or what we do categorically

speaking to make our rosters as strong as possible.

At the end of the show, we'll dig into where the money went on Sunday in weekly fab leagues,

and we'll talk about a few notable drops that may have some future value, even though they

were just cut loose by some teams over the weekend.

Let's start in Atlanta.

More injuries in Atlanta.

Maybe the team that's been the most snake-bitten by injuries this year,

Ozzie Albies and Max Fareed both go on the aisle.

The Albi's injury is a fractured wrist.

The timetable is in the range of eight weeks.

So this is almost a regular season ender for Albies unless he gets back maybe for the last week or two before the playoffs begin some questions as to whether Atlanta will be a team in the playoffs. They're in that position right now. But it's going to be harder to hold that as these injuries pile up, Jeff. This is kind of interesting though because they brought up a prospect. Nacho Alvarez is getting the call to the big league. So I'm curious,

what are your expectations for Elvarez now that he's up from AAA to backfill for Albies on this roster? You know, it's kind of a meteoric rise, especially because he wasn't especially killing it in AA, uh, was in AAA, believe it. You know, it was the funny thing there. I was looking him up a little bit. And like in an FBC leagues, we can't bid on them yet. So I have the week to

watch them at least there. I was looking him up a little bit and like in an NFBC leaks, we can't bid on him yet.

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