Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast for Thursday, August 5th.

Jeff Erickson here. As always, our podcast is sponsored by the good folks at Winbet.

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My guest today is Jeff Zimmerman. You know him from fan graphs. You know him from a lot of different

places. You know him from, of course, you know, from Mining the News, an award-winning article, the

FSWA award winner for a fantasy baseball article of the year. He is the co-author of the process.

He's in Tout Wars. He's won Tout Wars twice. Jeff, thank you so much for joining

us. Thanks for having me today, Jeff. It's always nice to talk about baseball and especially as

I think someone else noticed, we're literally at the point where last season began. Like,

this is it. Yeah. This is the 60-day season and, you know, kind of just the prepped. And I think the one thing for me, it's kind of been like, it was such a rush last year. It's like I kind of have to look at my teams and kind of get prep for like, all right, this is, you know, kind of the stretch run and let's try to do the best we can. Yeah, that's right. And we're going to talk a lot about that.

And I think that's a great point that you mentioned.

It literally is the length of the season we had last year. A lot can change, except we just have the, you know, it's harder to move the needle in some categories just because we have so many bank stats. But we'll get into that. I should. I was remiss in not mentioning that you also co-host the Launch Angle podcast, too.

What days do you record? I should. I was remiss in not mentioning that you also co-host the launch angle podcast, too.

What days do you record?

We tried to on Mondays and Tuesdays, but this week it didn't happen just one day it was Rob and one day it was Vann, so it just doesn't happen sometimes.

Sure. I can appreciate that, trust me. It. Yeah, it's really not any of the three of us is full-time job. So it's kind of like, well, let's figure out a time that works and usually it works, but a lot of times life gets in the way the week before I was gone on vacation. I mean, it's just life kind of gets in its way. It does.

It really does. All right, let's just jump into the news. Max Schrozer made his Dodgers debut

last night and pitched pretty well in shutting down the Astros, a fun, fun, fun, fun game,

fun two game series there. If you're not a like i think if you're a fan of

one of the two teams it's you know it's it's it's the sort of series you get excited about just but as

just a fan i like seeing the league teams play each other and of course there's a lot of history

there um did you get a chance to check out max last night at all? No, I didn't.

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