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

And we are recording this on, I guess you would call it Trade Deadline Eve for Otto New.

The trade deadline is 25 hours from now

as we start recording. By the time you hear this on Monday, the deadline will be passed. So we're not

going to give any trade deadline advice because it'll be too late. And Otto New is really one of

the later trade deadlines. So at this point, your other leagues, you know, we're past the trade window. And so we'll instead talk about some, some difficult decisions that teams

face after trades are done. Because there are some guys out there that, you know, do I keep them?

Do I cut them? What am I doing with them? And we'll get into that in a little bit. But Pete,

how's your, how's your trade deadline going? It's a little quiet, made a deal with you today that we might get to later in the show.

But a lot of my leagues have much earlier trade deadlines than on new.

So it's been a pretty quiet deadline for me.

Yeah, I've been, I thought it was going to be quiet.

And then, yeah, the trade, it's funny.

I told you a minute ago that I had made two trades today.

That was just a lie.

I've made three.

I completely forgot that you and I made a trade today.

We did.

We did.

And that was, you know, man, one of these moments where, and I may have to do something like this again because I don't know if you saw, but in the Guardians game today, Josh Naylor tweaked his ankle.

First base, taking a beating. Yeah. And like, you know, the reason you and I made a trade

today is because I had a team that is competing to win where a week ago, I had Mountcastle and Vinnie Pascentino as my

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