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What's going on, everybody? Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

This is Leading Off Live, the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

It is me, Joe Rico, back here with Casey Bubba.

We're going to be bringing you through the headlines,

news and notes, injuries, best bets, and all of our usual goodies here on the Wednesday leading off. Bubba, great to be back with you after a little bit of a break over the holiday. How you doing, my friend? Doing great. Yeah, a little, little break. But we're back, baby. We're on our Wednesday, Friday, September schedule, bringing the noise, the goods. I don't know what they want to call it to the fantasy baseball years the rest of the way. We have a lot of goodies. And I want to remind you guys that this is a baseball show. I'm seeing questions about Jacori Kroski Merritt and Braylin Allen in the chat. I could try and answer them, but I certainly wouldn't be giving you the greatest advice. We've got a lot of stuff going on here. The Fantasy Pro is Discord.

We've got Twitch streams, tons of YouTube videos for your football questions so you can get those answered. Today, though, we are going to be talking some baseball. And I just want to remind you guys off the top here, if you haven't done so already, subscribe to the channels, whether it's YouTube, whether it's the podcast feed here on Twitch. This is a time of year where people do start, as you can see in the chat, to go over to football,

and you can help us with some, to go over to football,

and you can help us with some of that hemorrhaging by continuing to subscribe, like, comment, and do all those great things on our videos. But we are going to start with some of the headlines. And normally I probably wouldn't have even bothered bringing this up. but Gary Crochet had quite the stinker, and it happened against a horrendous,

horrendous Cleveland offense.

Just looking at, you know, August just finished.

So I was looking at August stats as a whole.

Cleveland had a 62 WRC plus in the month of August.

They were by far the worst team.

And so naturally, Garrett Crochet gets lit up for seven earned runs for homers with some of the most unlikely characters hitting home runs off him, Rokio and the like. Any concern here at all over the final couple weeks with Crochet, Bubba, just considering how poor this opponent is, or are we just chalking this up to a bad start and we move on? You got chalk it up to a bad start. it's not like you're going to sit them anytime soon

it's just it's crochet there's always a concern coming into the season when they kind of slowed him

down last year when he hit a road bump again as his innings keep climbing later in the season but

it was one of those it was three home runs and one inning that really blew it up and it was obviously

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