Hello and welcome to the Keeper Cut podcast, Chad Young and Pete Ball with you.

And we are, boy, we're getting really close to trade deadlines if they haven't happened already.

I think most of mine have happened other than my auto new ones.

My out of new ones are still coming up.

We're recording right now on Sunday, August 25th, August 31st is the trade deadline for

out of new.

So I've got, you know, I've either made my final choices on who I'm trading, who I'm

keeping, or I'm getting ready to make those choices.

And so, Pete, you had suggested we talk about tough keeper decisions.

That felt perfect to me because that's a lot of what I'm wrestling with right now as I come

up to the deadline is like, is this a guy a keeper?

Is he not a keeper?

And yeah, it's, it's stressing me out.

It's stressing me out.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, it's that time of the year where like you said, the trade deadlines for most

leagues have passed.

So your roster is pretty much your roster.

And even if you're still looking at winning a championship, you may have had a

playoff spot locked up for a while and your mind can't help but go to what happens after

that.

What are my keepers looking like?

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