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It is Friday, March 15th.

It is a live one. Derek and Riper, Eno Serra, Trevor May, all here It is Friday, March 15th. It is a live one.

Derek and Riper, Enosaric, Trevor May, all here with you on this Friday. On this episode, we got some news on Derek Cole. We have rumors about Blake Snell. We have some new faces in new places that have intrigued us that we're going to discuss in some detail. We're going to take a deep dive into curb balls, and we got some

Q&A coming up a little later in the show as well. Listener leagues are blowing up. We're up to

five listener leagues. We may actually have to cut it off soon. So yeah, just a heads up there. Get in

if you haven't done so already. The link is inside the Discord. So be sure to jump in there. Let's just get right to it. We have some news on Garrett Cole. No UCL tear detected. He's still expected to miss one to two months. It just feels like we're in this holding pattern. I saw some analysis from a few different physicians out there that they weren't the ones that read the MRI or anything like that.

But it still kind of feels like this is a possible like long-term problem lurking until we hit some kind of prolonged stretch where Garrett Cole is healthy and pitching effectively again.

So Trevor, do you ever point in your career where you were waiting for something like this, where you didn't have a clear tear or something that was

known to be a major problem, but you had to work through this sort of window of uncertainty?

Yeah, actually, all of 2016 had a back issue and that we couldn't, the diagnosis didn't seem quite right. And it just

seemed like it was like, okay, just do this rehab program and then strengthen everything around it.

And it'll be, you know, you'll feel better at some point. That uncertainty, it sucks. I'm,

I'm honestly, my Tommy John surgery, my tear was so clean that it was just like, I just knew what need. I knew what the next like 16 months were going to look like immediately, which was really nice. At least if you're going to be hurt, you want to know what's going on and then how to fix it right away. Yeah, hearing that about Cole is not great. It has that feeling like we're in a holding pattern and let's see if

he feels better. That's just never anything you want to hear because I feel like this could be

recency bias, but it's usually a lot longer than they're anticipating. Have we heard any details?

Like this is the first I'm seeing no UCL tear. Like have you seen any other details? Haven't seen anything like a PRP injection or anything. Haven't even seen like a diagnosis. They said his elbow hurt and then that... They're probably like there's inflammation in the area. I guarantee you that's what they... Like, yes, that's what happens when things hurt. That's usually what it is. When there's inflammation in the area, have you seen your own MRIs? Have I? Yes. Have you been like walked through like what you're

looking at and like you yeah so you like when you an MRI if there's like inflammation around the

area does that make it hard to see if there's a tear? Like does inflammation block what you might see? Yes. So the biggest, the best way to find see if there's a tear? Like, does inflammation block what you might see? Yes. So the biggest,

the best way to find out if there is a tear in your elbow is like with an arthurgram, which I won't get,

it's a little bit awful because, but it's like you put dye in the area and then that dye,

like can travel within a muscle. And then if there's

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