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Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

This is Leading Off Live, the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host, Joe O'Riko.

Join by a special guest today.

We have Chris Towers in the House, host of CBS's Fantasy Baseball Today podcast along with the great Frank Stample and Scott White. Chris, it is great to have you on here. I'm just thinking about it before. We haven't done a pod together in a while. We got to hang out a little bit in Arizona last year, but it's great to see you, man. How you doing? Doing well. We got the last week of the season. We were talking before the show.

It'll be nice to relax a little bit. Hope you're doing first pitch Arizona this year as well. I'll be out there. So looking forward to it. Absolutely. I'm going to be there. I know I'm going to be on the sleeper in the bust with Justin and Paul and Jason. I do that show usually once a week these days.

And then I think we're still talking about a fantasy pros podcast down there, still in the works. But yes, absolutely will be down there. If you guys haven't checked it out already, Baseball HQ does a great fantasy baseball event every November down in Arizona. So make sure you guys are checking that out. Fill up the chat with your questions. I know it's the end of the year and maybe your season's done. Maybe your head-to-head leagues are done. But if you're in Roto or you just want to shoot the breeze, throw your questions into the chat. We'll be happy to answer them here on this lovely Monday. We only have three more shows left for the season today with myself and Chris. Wednesday to be myself and Casey Bubba. And then Friday, Chris Welsh, Joe O'Riko, Joe Pizapia, all three of the hosts on the final show of the year, which should be a lot of fun. But I did want to start off with probably the most controversial topic in baseball these days. It's the American League MVP award. I don't know that I really care so, so much, but I see people on both sides of the argument saying that the other side is very stupid. It's obviously Cal Raleigh. It's obviously Aaron Judge. For me, it's not really obviously either one of them at this point. I wouldn't have a problem with it going really either way, Chris, but we haven't talked in a while. I figured out to see where you're at on this whole discussion. Yeah, the only incorrect opinion you can have about American League MVP is that it should be someone who isn't Cal Rally or Aaron Judge.

Otherwise, I have no strong. Like I, Aaron Judge is at that level that Mike Trout was at in the 2010s, right?

Where it requires someone doing something absolutely historic for him to not win the MVP.

Well, there is a catcher who's pretty good defensively, who has 58 homers with a week left in the season.

Like, that is a pretty historic performance. And so, yeah,

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