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.

Joined as always by my co-hosts, Mike Carter and Dave Funnel.

Fellas, we got a good one tonight.

We're going to be talking some playing time trends, looking at some beat writer articles,

also going to be talking injuries and looking at some bullpens.

And of course, we'll be ending with our mental health minute so stay

tuned we've we've got some good information from you but my first question is so we're

recording this on Thursday night and I'm looking at this game between the Astros and the Rangers

got a great pitcher's duel going on right now between Jacob de Grom and Hunter Brown.

So I know we had a lot of debate about DeGrom in the off season. I know Dave, you were pretty

tentative with drafting him, feeling he was too much of a risk. Was he going to be the same pitcher?

He's been healthy. He hasn't been vintage to Grom, right you know he's been healthy he hasn't been vintage to grom right

but he's been been really good especially the past few starts hunter brown seems to be taking the

next step that a lot of people thought he would this year and and i think he's entering the

conversation of like sp one back end sp one at this point. So I want to lead with this.

Who do you have rest of season? Who do you have ranked higher? Jacob de Grom or Hunter Brown.

And I'm going to start with you, Mike. Well, you know, last year I drafted DeGrom knowing

my home league, which is a keeper league.

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