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

We are through the start of the year. It's officially26 keeper deadlines are upon us think for one of our

listener leagues we're recording this in saturday i think one of our listener leagues the keeper

deadline is monday right hope uh i don't know i've had my keepers i always like select my keepers

of who i know i want to keep and then if i make any trades or anything i adjust it so i don't

really pay too close attention to keeperer League keeper deadlines. But that sounds about right. I noticed the Discord has been buzzing. Yeah, there's been a lot going on. So we'll have to see if any of that lands anything. I've got, I have a, I had a trade talk I thought might land somewhere. I'm waiting on it now.

But that's for the other league,

which I think we have an extra week on. So we'll see. But I'm figuring out I made some, my dynasty leagues are starting to get a little bit more active. There's a lot going on right now. So let's see. More activity coming up as we get closer and closer to pitchers and catchers reporting. We get closer and closer to

some set of guys landing jobs. We're still waiting. I'm like, I've had trade talks about

Beau Bichette and I made a trade yesterday where I acquired Bryson Stott. And the trade talks

about Bichette have all stalled because people are like, I don't know where he's playing.

I don't know what position he's playing.

And the talks on Stott started with the other manager in this league wanting a pitcher from me,

a pitcher he wanted with Shane Bieber.

I wasn't really sure what I wanted. I was open to trading Bieber. I'm sort of comfortable selling a little high because I think his value is still pretty high and there's some injury risk and stuff like that and there. And so I was like, yeah, sure. We talked about Stott and I need a middle infielder and I could use some speed. And so I was like, yeah, that makes sense, except like, the Phillies are supposed to meet with Bichette this week.

Like, I don't know what that means.

Like, I don't, yeah.

So, like, if he signs there, he's obviously, I mean, I shouldn't say this.

I assume he's signing to play second base. It is possible that he's signing to play shortstop and they move Trey to center field. Maybe. But like, if he plays second, I don't think Stott's really got the arm for third, but maybe he does. Maybe they move him to third and then Bome is the odd. I just don't know. I don't know what to expect. So I was, and I was like, I was hesitant. I was just like, I don't know if I want to trade for Bryson Stott right now. And we ended up, I basically worked out. Like, I'm getting Parker Messick along with Statt and I'm giving up, I don't even remember, some prospect I don't really

care about, just to sort of nudge things a little bit more. And I was like, okay, fine. I'm fairly

confident Stott will end up with a job somewhere. But like, I don't know. There's at least a

chance that like the Phillies sign him, sign Bichette,

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