Hello and welcome to On the Corner of the Official Podcast, Pitchelist.com.

I'm your host, Eric Samolsky, joined by Nick Pollock as we continue our series, breaking down his top 200 starting pitchers.

What is happening? Yes, this is all for 2025. I hope you're enjoying the format so far.

It's kind of fun. We just have these quick bits on everyone that you need.

And then, of course, I'm going to be doing a plus pitch podcast episodes in January as well

to cover them by rotation inside of every team.

So it's a little bit more in depth about the other guys underneath the prospect guys,

the guys on the fringe and everything like that, whom you might want to know about,

especially for your deeper leagues or at least just be aware of in spring training. But right now,

we're still in the early bits of this and you tease this guy, I think, at the end of the last episode.

I did. I said you were going to get a Mariners starting pitcher, Nick. Mr. George Kirby.

Yes.

Where do you have George Kirby, Eric?

I have Met 11 here.

I have George Kirby at 14 right now.

Okay.

And, but I'm iffy on him.

Like, because I, you know, we're going to get innings.

We're going to get an elite whip. We did not get the jump in

strikeout rate that we were hoping for coming into this year. But this is still a pitcher who just

finished his third major league season. And so all of the, hey, there's this potential for growth.

It doesn't all go out the window because

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