Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fancy Baseball podcast. I'm Jeff Erickson. Today is Thursday,

July 22nd. And I am super honored and thankful to have my next guest is Bernie Pleskov,

our man on the scene, former Major League Baseball Scout. You frequently hear him on Mondays on the

series XM show when we're doing baseball talk. And he's also on our site all the time. And you can also find him on Forbes and, of course, on Twitter at bernieplescoff.com. Bernie, welcome the show. How you doing? I'm great, Jeff, and it really is good to be with you. I'm so happy to be talking baseball. Just me and you, Jeff. That'll be really cool. Yeah, me too. I'm super excited about that too, especially because now it's all a lot of football

these days, but the podcast, we still get to do that here. I'd be remiss and not mentioning

this podcast is sponsored by winbett.com. We'll tell you a little bit later in the show about

how you can go and play at Winbet. So we'll do that here. Big news right off the top.

You and I met at Arizona Fall League through first pitch Arizona.

Jason Gray introduced us.

We met it at a Fall League game.

And through that, you started writing for us there.

And we now have an Arizona fall league this fall again.

You bet, Jeff. It's going to start in October. It'll start, I believe, on October 23rd,

and it'll go through November and they're going to use the same venues that they've always used,

the same six, and they go all through the Phoenix Valley.

So basically, I think rosters will come out in August.

And what we need to know is that we've got a lot of pitchers, a lot of hitters that need to catch up time for a missed 2020.

Right. And for limited play this year.

So, you know, I think the Arizona Fall League is probably the most important baseball that I watch.

As a former scout and now as an analyst, I get to see these guys every day up close, down on the field, in the dugout.

It's just a fabulous experience. It is. It's amazing. I love it. I love going. You can see it

the game from any vantage point that you want. I've even come up and joined you in the press box

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