Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball Podcast.

Not often that I get to talk with an FSWA baseball writer of the year award winner the day after he wins the award.

We're going to do that with John Leghasa, all coming up next on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Hey, everybody.

Jeff Erickson here with John Leggiza,

host of Cork Stats.

Writes at The Athletic,

his own substack.

He's at Roto Baller.

He's everywhere.

Big John Stud.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Congratulations on winning your third FSWA award. Yeah, they like me. They really like me, I guess. Well, you know, it's so weird to talk about yourself when you're already doing something that you love, which is kind of rewarding in its own right. So we were talking about this just in the air, but you know, I appreciate everybody, because it really is a team effort, you being part of this content thing of ours for a while yeah like I actually write it my name is on the thing it goes through other filters and sometimes editors make my garble sound like English you know so it's a bit and then even somebody like Andy you know who takes his time and has put time and effort and

organize this stuff. You know, I don't think he gets enough credit for that. Like, I shouldn't be getting more credit than he is. So, you know, old power and everybody, appreciate everybody out there, following the work. And yeah, you follow me on Twitter or kind of streamline you everywhere. I'm a bit of a fantasy mercenary, like you were saying. Yeah, absolutely. It's a hustle economy and the fantasy is no different.

In fact, it's always...

I really like that, by the way, hustle economy.

Yeah, absolutely. It's a hustle economy and the fantasy is no different. In fact, it's always been there. I really like that, by the way, hustle economy. Yeah, it is.

It's been the gig economy. Gig economy sounded so like, it doesn't sound as good. Hustle like I'm a little

bit more proud of a hustle than I'm at the gig, maybe. Exactly. I always used to joke that

we didn't have a whole lot of investor capital when we started, but we did have sweat capital. We put the time in, and it's a laborer love. We do really truly enjoy what we do,

privilege that we get to do this. And, you know, my God, I get to call, I've been able to call this

a living for 25 years. It's crazy. Well, guess what? No surprise that you've stuck because

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