injuries are crushing everybody. Fred and I still can't make a trade, and we've tried to pick up players around that. Has it worked? We'll find out here on the next Red Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I am Jeff Erickson. He is Fred Zinky,

the man by the doorknob, as we like to call him. It is a busy, busy May 31st, a lot of games on tap, a lot of news going on.

All of our players are going on the aisle at once.

Besides that, life is good.

How you doing, Fred?

Good.

I actually have no shares of any of the talented infielders who went on the IL today.

So my IL problems were already, already problems. But today I did not, by Tim Anderson, by Carlos Crea, by Wander Franco, I didn't get hurt anymore. Yeah, I have no Franco this year in redrafts. The only place I have him is a keeper league at a score sheet league. But, you know, he's in demand.

So I don't have him.

I have a couple of Tim Anderson in, like,

draft champions leagues, but none of the live drafts,

none of the, you know, only in like the draft and hold leagues do I have him.

Yeah, it's wild. I did it.

I traded for Carlos Correa, though, and that was, I'm a little salty about that one because the twins didn't announce that they were testing him for COVID. Then like they said they, oh, we found out during the game. But, you know, it was one of those things where it happened, you know, games already started. I can't mention for the week. Although I think

we have midweek activations. I know there's a lot of people that got screwed on that one there. Yes. Yes. That is a tough one. So sorry, you said you just traded for him. It just traded for him. And it's a dynasty slash keeper. It's the XFL. You know, if you go to first pitch Arizona, it's that league he's he's on a three you know he's on a contract so ever his value goes up

three dollars every go to first pitch Arizona. It's that league. He's on a three, you know, he's on a contract. So every, his value goes up $3 every month, or every year, not month. Month would be expensive. Every year. And it's, you don't have to sign them to a long-term contract. You just make the decision year and you're out. And it's an OBP league. So he's got a little bit more value there and I traded with Ian

con added him to my roster gave up my first round pick in the March draft next year which

typically is a prospect that emerged is not already on one of our rosters to begin with there

it's an open universe draft but you can only pick up major leaguers when there's free agent

pickups gotcha makes sense So now, if it's just a short stay, are you actually regretting the trade or you're just annoyed? No, I'm just annoyed that, you know, just the timing. I'm annoyed that I lost them, but more importantly, you know, at least I think I only missed a day of live stat, so it's not that bad.

And in fact, the player I slotted in was Max Kepler, who was missed Monday's game.

So it actually worked out pretty well.

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