Welcome to the fantasy baseball beat.

Welcome to the fantasy baseball beat, part of the pitcherless podcast network. Thank you so much for joining us. My name is Torres. I'll be your host today. We've got a good one for you this evening. We have Michael Chikini, photo baller, joining us today.

Michael also is the author of the Out of Options substack,

where he puts out great fantasy baseball-related articles.

We'll be talking about Michael's early season player evaluation process,

how he uses pitcher stuff metrics,

beat writer articles about Ben Rice and Jonathan Miranda, waiver wire pickups for this weekend, as well as our new and expanded mental health

minute. We've got it all going on tonight. As always, I'm joined by Mike and Dave. I'm going to start with you, Mike.

How's it going?

How are your teams doing so far?

Just tell me, man, what's going on?

Well, hanging in there.

I've had a couple of pretty significant injuries, as I've documented with you guys in our group chat,

you know, losing Langford and Merrill was really painful. Luckily, I took your

advice this year from both of you and diversified a little bit, so I don't have too many of those

same guys on the same teams, which is good. So so far, I'm hanging in there doing okay. Right now,

in Glarf, last I checked, I was second. In tout, I had been anywhere from first to about eighth you know how those things go uh they

vacillate pretty quickly uh the one thing that i will say that i'm very proud of is that our

freshman baseball team here in batavia is seven and one we started conference play this week

we swept three games from lake park mond Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night.

My guys are teaching me some new words.

Do you guys want to know some new words that I learned?

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