Welcome to the fantasy baseball beat.

Welcome to the fantasy baseball beat.

Welcome to the fantasy baseball beat part of the pitcher list podcast network.

Thank you so much for joining us.

My name is Torres.

I'll be your host today.

Join, as always, by Mike Carter and

Dave Funnel. We also have a special guest today. Nathan Grimm of Baseball Perspectus will be joining us.

But before we bring him in, let's check in with Mike and Dave. And here's my opening question.

In your opinion, what is the most actionable information that has come out of this first week of spring training?

Mike, let's start with you.

Well, I'm going to go down south to Atlanta and talk about Spencer Strider.

Last week, last weekend I was at Glarf drafting in Detroit

Rock City, which was a great time. And you guys were helping me with some of my picks, you know,

places where I was having several thoughts and got stuck in a few places. And I was able to get

Strider in the 10th round as my number three starter.

But the piece of information that I found really exciting about that a day after I draft him was that he's throwing curveballs and mixing in some other pitches.

And so to me, that's always, that always seems like it's a good sign that maybe he's not

as far away as what people had suggested earlier on.

And now they're talking that with some luck, which I don't usually have a lot of, as we all know,

he might be actually in the big league roster by the end of April, early May,

which to me, if he comes back at that time, that's actionable for people that are drafting now

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