Welcome in friends to fantasy pros. It is leading off. I am your host Chris Welsh on the final week of leading off and the final

walkie Wednesday. It is Kelly Kirby in the house with a Kelly Kirby walkie bonus, which is fun, which made me do a whole lot of work, Kelly, before I might have done more work on that than anything else, but I'm glad to be here, but a little sad that this will be our final walkie Wednesday, Kelly.

Yeah, so my I was getting ready for it. And I thought, oh, next week, maybe we can do, you know, whatever. And I thought there is no next week. So I guess we got to do it today.

How are you like this? Hey, everyone, I sent a message to fantasy pros asking for the show your year round. There you go. That'll get more me and Kelly on the show, hopefully. But like I said, we are going to be giving you what the wonky bonus was, which took me a little bit. We got lots of news and notes. We've got fantasy stuff in here. But I will say, by the way, I love the bonuses. When you have this type of homework, because you always have these moments where you're just like, oh, yeah, like I didn't realize that. And I actually had that with a couple of moments. We'll tell you

what it is here. And just a tiny bit. And that race is getting hot. It is getting very, very hot. And your boy also, I believe it was the only one with a dual homework hit yesterday. So I cracked 40 at least. I'm not in the 50s with everybody else, but I did crack 40. But let's get into the news and notes. And what it was. So today, we have the home run bonus yesterday. It was the blow save bonus in Major League Baseball as Craig Kimberl walked home.

The winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning and Tuesday, a 4-3 loss to the Padres. And you also had Josh Haderblow is safe for the Padres in the top of the ninth, which I believe was his fourth blown as a Padre. What is with these closers, Kelly?

Well, and especially on the playoff teams, you know, as a, as a cups fan, I'm used to blown saves. Like I'd love to play in a fantasy league where that's a positive category, because I just draft the cup full pen and call it good. But

what are these teams going to do start in October? Like, how do you feel confident in either of those guys coming in at all?

They made these moves for exactly what you're saying. They made these moves for the dependency. This is what they did with them. And these guys just completely blown across. You know, it's interesting, too, because this early, early, early mock draft that we're doing, I really didn't feel. And this is what's, I mean, I'd say there's a lot of things that are kind of broken with early mock drafts in general.

But one of those is like, I don't even know what to do with closers. And I didn't really know how to attack closers. We did have a couple people that, you know, just like you would see in, you know, March next year, guys taking closures kind of early, but at the same time, I think there were guys that were falling because people don't really understand and the dependency of who's going to be who I just, the early mocks closers are a really weird spot. I didn't quite know what to do with them though. I did end up getting Ryan Hellsley later than he should go much later than he will probably actually

go outside the top 100. I imagine that's not going to be the case. But this just kind of breeds to that and might might, because it's always just one or two things as well, is when you have a couple guys at the top, then we hoard the problem is as a couple of the elite guys at the top have changed and been a problem and hate or in that, do you think we can have a reverse course next season where we don't do the really early closer thing like we did that like was very, very prominent this year.

Yeah, I mean, I would love to see that because I did not understand the, like the NFBC was just, I mean, closers were going like third round, second round and it made no sense to me. And in one of my, the league, I'm in my championship two week long series. I have, I kept, we only get two keepers and I kept Liam Hendrix. And I was like, okay, great. Now that's taken care of and I don't have to worry about it anymore. And I'm currently losing the championship matchup force in saves for nothing.

So I'm like, well, I don't think I'm going to do that again. So yeah, I hated it. I thought that was, I didn't understand that was going, but see also I think this year was reactionary to the previous years of not of having inconsistent closer throughout the whole thing and only having a couple guys at the top.

On top of us not really have, I mean, I don't even know if we had half of the closer roles coming into this year really settled like really, really settled.

There's so much uncertainty that led to it. But I think we'll have another round of this of like reactionary look with Josh haters done with us.

People that drafted right, I saw Glacias was going on the top like seven. He gets traded loses that can at least been inconsistent.

Kimberl's been inconsistent Liam Hendrix, you know, I mean, all of these have been inconsistent that I think you are going to have a turn on this and where if I was just throwing out like a guess.

Let's say I would guess there was probably like 10 closures that went inside the top 100.

I'm not sure that would be the case. And if they did, I'll bet you it's going to start two or three rounds later.

And the hoarding will come in that 70 to 100 range where then they'll all go not like starting into the 30s or something like that.

So we're always we're always kind of reactionary to it, but God has it been God awful and hate or two haters probably the most disappointing one.

You will yeah, because it was that was the fight right everybody was like Hendrix or Hader Hendrix or Hader and I mean haters just been a mess.

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