It is Sunday night. We are here talking baseball, middle infielders, and closers, all coming up next on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

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Jeff, real quick, give everybody what the code is if they want to join Rotowire there. Rotowire.com slash pod. We'll get your free peek behind the paywall, no credit card required. Man, I sound so cheesy. I love it. There's a reason I kicked it to you because I knew you're gonna do it way more cheesy than I could do it. Yes, yes, indeed. No, but seriously, we want you to kick the tires, see what we have to offer with our draft kit, our projections, our rankings, our articles, you name it. Just the player news, projected starters grid. We're going to go out to 28 days this year. Do some partner requests on that one there. We don't promise we'll be 28 days accurate. We're going to do the best we can lay it out and had a time. And I know a lot of people like our starters grid. So check that out too. We hope you want to subscribe. We love our product and we think you will too. As an impartial person who does not work for roto wire and I can use any set I want to. I use the I use the starters grid just about every day in the season. It's the best one. I wouldn't use it if it was not the best

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Happy,

happy people this, this year, too, because they're big Texas Rangers fans. Yes. Yes, indeed. Let's see. So let's, let's jump there. We're going to talk middle and fielders and closers, but real quick, you know, guys are reporting to camp. We're getting a little bit of news. There are games actually starting next weekend. I think the Padres and Dodgers play next Friday because they go out early this year on the early games. They play, and these are a couple of the games on Sunday. Jeff, are there anything you read into like these stories? I know everybody laughs about best shape in my life. But obviously we had some, we've had injuries that have, they've come through. We talked about those, like Kyle Bradish and all that, they've been talked about another podcast. But do you care about the best shape of your life stories? Like Vlad Jr. looks really slim down. What level do you factor in some of that stuff where, you know, guys really seem like they're, you know, they've been working out all summer, all offseason. I think at the extremes it matters. Um, I'm looking for health. Um, I'm more, you know,

honestly, I'm working interested in learned a new pitch, uh, went to drive line than I am best

shape of their life. But, uh, so the Hunter Green note, hey, that caught my attention. Um know, that, that's fun. And I'm looking and I'm looking, it's our Reds after all. I'm looking for reasons to be optimistic. Yeah, right. It's our Reds. We had a, we had a steak league dinner this week and we had a draft for World Series winners. And I got the Reds ahead of you. So maybe they're my Reds. Hey, nasty, mean, cruel person that you are. I'm already footing the bill for your dinner and you have to do that too. I didn't think about that way, but that was actually pretty doubly cruel right there. Yes, it was. It was a cruel summer. Oh, Taylor Swift reference early i love it no banana ramma bite you i knew i

knew i did a different different version that's one i i don't dislike taylor swift by the way

opening uh opening song to the concert so i uh yeah my daughter and i sing that quite often okay that's

cool but i still like banana ramma for that song at least.

Karate Kid, you know, all that.

I'm on the extremes on those stories, too. Like most of the time, like, yeah, whatever, you know, you should be working on the off season. But it's guys that, you know, maybe couldn't work out for the off season because they were injured. but someone like Vlad Jr., like, it's not just that he's in shape.

It's that to me, like, he's probably taking the season really seriously

as what I look at.

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