Welcome to the fantasy baseball beat.

Welcome, everybody, to the fantasy baseball beat.

I'm Mike Carter.

I'm going to be your host for the night for better or for worse, likely for worse.

I'm here with my good friend and co-hosts as well, Dave Funnel.

Dave will get you to you in a second.

Torres is out tonight because he is doing family things.

It is right before the 4th of July weekend.

Happy 4th of July weekend to those of you who celebrate it.

Although in the United States, we have a mixed bag right now with this big, beautiful bill

getting passed today in the Senate and the House. So we've got some interesting things going on here in the States. We have a mixed bag right now with this big beautiful bill getting passed today in the

Senate and the House. So we've got some interesting things going on here in the States. Dave is a

casual observer north of the border and laughing at me right now as I speak. We were scheduled to have

Jake Rill with us tonight to talk Baltimore Orioles, but Jake had some commitments that came up and he

was not able to join us. So you are going to have me and Dave talking to you tonight, and we are going to talk about

a few different things.

Starting off, we're going to talk about some difficult decisions that we have to make for

our fantasy rosters as we head into the hot part of July here.

We're also going to do a beat writer roundup on a couple of articles that we've found

interesting this week, one from Brian McTaggart on the Astros, another one from Adam

Barry on the Rays, and we're going to talk about injuries and bullpens, which are what

Dave and I write about over at fan tracks and over at Rotoballer on a weekly basis.

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