Hello everyone and welcome to episode 343 of the Battery Power podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, coming to you on Sunday, April 3rd in the evening.

I'm coming to you from New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Final Four.

It's madness in the city.

But in one of our staple podcasts of the year, one of's madness in the city. But, and one of our staple podcasts of

the year, one of the times that we, the three main co-hosts come together each year, it's time

for some actual predictions on the record. And I'm joined by both Eric Cole and Scott Coleman.

Hello, fellas. Hey, Bradley. I am here to make sure that I defundle you and

make you laugh in your sleep-deprived state. Beyond that, I probably won't bring much of value to the

podcast, but it's always good to hear from you. Yeah, Brad needs some sleep. Good to be on with everybody

here. Less than a week to opening day finally. It's felt like forever since we've had baseball on our

lives so um always fun to do these podcasts some predictions then of course to look back in six

months and see see how we did and some other news and notes to get to so should be a good one

yeah absolutely so we'll save the predictions for the second half of the podcast we will get on the record with our MVP choices from the Braves, with our positive surprises, some maybe some negative surprises, and at least finish predictions, win totals, all that stuff is coming at the end of the show.

But there is a little bit of news to hit on. Unfortunately, earlier this week, our friend Sean Coleman on the same podcast,

we talked about this, but Luke Jackson has, at least at a bare minimum, a UCL issue

of some kind in his throwing arm.

He was actually placed on the 60-day IL on Sunday.

So at minimum, he'll be out a while.

Obviously, the fear is Tommy John surgery.

That's not been confirmed just yet. But he's going to be out for a while. That is obviously a hit.

It is less of a hit because they went out and spent a bunch of money on Kelly Jansen. That's

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