Hello and welcome on the corner of the official podcast to pitchlist.com.com. I'm your host Eric Smolski. joined at first pitch Arizona. The man himself, Nick Pollock. What is happening? Yes, we are live. And I'm standing. Eric is not yet. I don't know if I'm going to. Okay. Well, you do you. It's been a day. I know, but I'm so excited.

This is a very special podcast we do once a year where Eric and I are in Arizona in front of wonderful crowd.

Look at them.

Oh, my.

Ace is going to ace.

Yes, indeed.

And this is the time where we are allowed to talk to everybody else and hear why we are wrong with our rankings. So what we have here is our top 20 rankings and we're going to go through the top

100. And you're going to hear people come up to the mic and ask their questions and put us to

the coals of the fire about how could we be so wrong. Eric, are you excited about this? I'm very excited. I was recently just sitting in the grass and the outfield watching a AFL home run derby. Don't forget the bucket of popcorn. Had a bucket of popcorn. So I'm ready to go. I'm in a very pleasant mood right now. Absolutely. Absolutely. So are we going, we're, we don't need to say our top 20.

No. And I will say that in the, in the podcast notes listening to this right now, you will see links to the five images that the lovely Josh Sperry made for us. So you can see. Oh, yeah. That you'll see the rankings. Also, you can see them on pitchers. My Top 200. Eric I believe yours are on Roto World. There will be one top 150 will be on Roto World. Oh, beautiful. So you guys can check those out there. And what's really funny is that Eric, I changed his rankings in last five days. I did. I've been changing them this weekend as well. And I haven't. And I will tell you some small changes in this podcast. But before we take too long, Eric, do you think we should take our first question? Yeah, I don't know who it's going to be from. I have no idea. I think it's some guy named Andy Bell. Yes. What do we got here? Andy Bell, a long time first time. Let's just have the Kyle Braddish conversation. You made both your top 20s.

I think that's going to be a little bit jarring to folks. I happen to agree with y'all, so not so much a disagreement. But really an opportunity to kind of let people know why he needs to be back in the top 20 or at least 25, I think, Kyle Braddish, Baltimore Orioles. Sure. I will let Nick start. That's a question from Paul Spor

Thank you very much, Paul.

Yeah, woo.

But just before we let Nick start. That's a question from Paul Spore. Thank you very much. Paul. Yeah. But just before we let Nick start

as of right now, Nick has Kyle Bradish ranked 18th. I have Kyle Bradish ranked 14th. So when Paul said he's in both of our top 20s,

those are the rankings. Nick, why don't you start first with your thoughts on why Kyle Bradish is in your

top 20? It's so funny. I had the entire spiel that he just said in my head to lead it to Eric and

then he cut me off. It was great. You know, Kyle Bradish is a perfect example of something that we've

seen with injured pitchers. I'm starting to realize that those that are coming back from a long

time injury, those who have those half

seasons are perfectly set up for an elongated, successful season thereafter. Terrick Scoobel

did this. We saw this just now with Matthew Boyd. We saw it with Joe Ryan. We even saw in the

...