It is not exactly baseball weather out there right now in early January,

which means we've got plenty of time to take some deeper dives on a handful of the players

who had some more confusing 2024 seasons.

Got a whole handful of those coming up next with Ryan Boyer here on the Rotoire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Welcome, everybody, to the first Monday of the 2025 season.

Well, no, the first Monday of the 2025 calendar year.

Still a good while until the baseball season.

But the podcast season has started off.

I've got my usual Saturday co-host here, Ryan Boyer.

Ryan will be back together on a weekly basis, I believe, starting in early February,

but good to get the chance to talk to you here in the depths of winter.

How have your last few months been?

Been good.

Trying to keep the hot stove warm.

It's been pretty exciting offseason.

It's got 10 inches of snow on the ground here in St. Louis, about 18 degrees outside, something like that.

So it doesn't exactly feel like

time to talk about baseball, but as you and I both know, it's always a good time of the year

to talk about baseball. Yeah, I got to go to Wrigley Field the other day, got to see how the

baseball stadium is doing. They were playing a college women's

hockey game. It was pretty fun, pretty cold as well. I'm glad that we don't play baseball

games in 22-degree weather or whatever it is today. I'm sure it's even colder right now. Those

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