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Jason Churchill joining us now on the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook hotline fittingly. Church. We got a lot of baseball things to talk about. I'm going to start by, though, looking at the lineup, kind of as it stands or what you projected to be entering the season. I saw ESPN's Bradford-Doolittle rank them as the fourth best, which is great. That's fantastic. But he gave him a knock for power. Does that kind of make sense for you? Is that where you'd look and wonder which questions they can answer? No, I got to be honest with you. No. I understand if you're trying to be nitpicky and you're trying to compare them to some of the juggernaut lineups out there, you know, you might be missing a little bit of power to compare to the Yankees and the Dodgers. But I scoured over this roster yesterday and recorded early this morning on baseball things. And I was trying to come up with the weakness of this team. And I think you guys know me well enough to know that if I find something, I'm going to drive it home, right?

If I don't like something about, I'm going to be like, yep, this is the thing.

This is the thing they didn't do this winter that they really needed to do.

I couldn't find it.

I truly, truly could not find it.

If you want to say power, great.

Where was that power at the beginning of last year? They had to go get that power at the trade deadline last year in E. E. E. E. E. E. E. Hio Suarez and Josh Nailor. And they were still in it. They were still right there in it. And now they're going to start the season with Nailer, with Donovan. I don't see it. I don't see the problem here. I don't see the weakness. I'm not looking at this thinking, man, they need to hit more home runs. I'm thinking there might be a couple of spots in the order that you might want to improve at a later time. But I don't see any weaknesses in this roster right now. I think the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers are in big,

big trouble. How do you feel about the bullpen?

I like it. I like what they did. I'm a big Ferreer fan. I think sometimes it's a little harder to see why a pitcher like that might be worth what it costs Seattle to get in Harry Ford

because he hasn't been a big strikeout guy. But if you dig down in high-levered situations, that strikeout rate climbs from 22, 23%, a lot close to a 30. I think he was up over 28% in those kinds of situations. So that's going to be really fun to see Ferrer evolve in that way. But he's still going to be a guy a little bit like Gabe Spire,

who when he doesn't get the strikeout, he's going to get the ground ball. And they needed some

left-handed help down there. And they may be looking for more as we speak.

I know that health is going to be key for the Mariners rotation this year, obviously central

to their identity and how they want to win. But you know far more than I do, it felt to me like there was something that wasn't right

with the rotation outside of just health that I couldn't put my finger on.

So when I ask, hey, where do you want to see improvement or what do you want to see,

I guess I'm asking about anything outside of just

that a bunch of guys don't land on the IL. Yeah, I think it was a very strange year last year with

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