Welcome to Fantasy Pude, a pictureless baseball podcast where we're tackling the most relevant debates in fantasy baseball each week.

I'm Sarah Sanchez. I'm here with my co-host, Shelly Verstrait, as always,

to talk through both sides

of the hottest fantasy baseball debates right now.

It seems impossible,

but the trade deadline is a week away,

and by my count,

24 teams in baseball have a reasonable path

to at least a wild card spot.

It's going to be an interesting one.

It's certainly going to change

how we approach roster spots on our fantasy teams.

How are you thinking about the trade deadline for your team, Shelly?

I mean, I guess for me, I'm just trying to, like, who do I think is going to be traded

and then what player is going to capitalize on that.

So, yeah, I did a couple, you know, closer spec things for like a couple dollars here and there.

And if not, again, it's just like a couple dollars wasted.

So trying to be semi-proactive.

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm doing.

Closer Spex is going to be the theme of my weekend in Fab because I have a couple of leagues where I have managed to do really well on just about everything except closers.

I have also this year trying to do a better job looking at guys who are going to move up in the batting order and get more of those plate appearances.

That's not something that I've tried to capitalize on as much in the past.

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