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This is Leading Off Live.

It is me, Joey P.

Joe Pizapia with me, of course, is the Welsh.

And it's all of you, my people, the peanuts and the cracker jacks right here on our Twitch, twitch.tv.tvs slash fantasy pros. That's the place to be to watch leading off live every day. Subscribe with Prime. Get rid of those stupid commercials. And of course, if you can't watch us live, you can always watch us on demand. Fantasy Bros. MLB, that's the YouTube channel. I am always up for hours and hours before Welsh,

and he reminded me of that this morning because I said to him, he seemed awful quiet. He's like, well, I pretty much just spoke up. And I've been up cooking for, yeah, six hours. I've been up for six hours. Ready to go, ready to rock, super energetic about today. We've got a lot to get to today. We're going to do a deep dive about maybe a guy who needs to get moved on from by the Cincinnati Rez. We're going to talk about

Mike Trout's April versus May stats a little bit. Some more rookie-lucky, Travis Bazonum with a good

night. But first, the big news, the return of the big dog to the Yankee rotation. That's right.

Definitively, we now know.

Friday is the day for Garret Cole.

He makes his return against the Rays, too.

So right into the fire, Welsh, no waiting.

I assume if you got Garikol on your roster and you can play him on Friday,

it wasn't a weekly league where you missed this news and you can't make any changes now about it. You can start Garrett Cole against the raise. I say you do it. What say you

Welsh? Yeah, I think I'm going to roll with it. I'm cool with that one. Cole was hit 97. I was

hitting 100, but he was sitting 97 in that last rehab start really good outing five and one third

six strikeouts they just pushed it up to here this is kind of a tough matchup it's a tough

matchup in that the raise who I just saw quote someone was like the rays are like the race are like

the perfect team right now because they're just that amount of like disciplined and they've got a little bit

of pop you know they've got like one of the more bigger prolific homerun hitters in junior camonero

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