How's it going and welcome to episode 254 of On the Wire?

A proud member of the Pitchelist Podcast Network.

I am Adam Howe joined as always by Kevin Hastings.

Thank you all for listening and or watching the great show for you as we prepare for the ninth overall fab run of the 2026 season

Kevin and man there's I'm gonna no more banter I'm going right into it Kevin welcome thank

good to see you again but we have so much to talk about unfortunately oh yeah big news week

so yeah that pretty much you know Adam I so much to talk about, unfortunately. Oh, yeah, big news week.

So, yeah, that pretty much, you know, Adam, I enjoy weeks like this. We're going to go through the news that pretty much takes care of the episode.

But we'll hopefully have some actionable tips along the way to help this news, help use the news to our advantage when

oftentimes initially it is not.

Right.

And what's even crazier is that as long as this list is that we're going to talk about,

it's actually longer because I keep stuff out that I don't care about some more.

It's not going to impact my fab considerations enough for me to bring it up.

All right.

So most of this is in chronological order, but some of it isn't.

So we'll just start at the beginning of week, because I want to see what you

saw out of the Atlanta lineup.

Now that they have Haseung Kim back, starting at shortstop, he made his debut early in the

week, or his 2026 debut early in the week when Eli White went on the seven-day concussion IL.

So he should be able to come back, assuming everything looks pretty good for the start of next week.

But in the meantime, unless Kim goes back on the IL himself, it's not as though Eli White is going to come back to the roster and

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