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My name is Nick Pollock, and today we're going to talk about those Houston Astros.

And how can I do this without talking about Framber Valdez? Oh my gosh.

Every single year, this guy just, I can never be on the same page with everyone about him.

It feels as if I see something completely different.

And you know what? Maybe I'm just being

biased against them. I think what happens is I experience Valdez game to game. And I think those

who roster him in your 12 teamers who make daily decisions, he's frustrating. He's someone

that will go on these amazing runs and then these absolute torrents of just what is going on today.

And last year, well, Framber Val does a 3-4 ERA and a 130 whip with a 19% K rate through his first 15 starts of the year.

I remember this.

I put him in the 50s of the list because you just didn't know what's going on.

He had a 19% strikeout rate. He was a Toby. Like you can't drop him, but you didn't know what to do

with him. And then after that, after the July 4th start, Frambert Valdez found his curveball.

Boom. There it is. Oh my gosh. And he went on this ridiculous run for 13 starts of a

191 ERA and a 0.89 whip and a 30% strike every. And what happens is that guys now go into

their projection systems and they say, well, he's always been this. He's always returned this value.

And thus, like, why should we expect anything else? You just sign him in the year and you forget

about it. Well, us as fantasy baseball managers don't work like that okay and if you can if you can just be

like no I trust the projections I don't care it has been four years of this I'm just going to slide

them in and I'm not going to think anything about it bless you you know not if you sneeze if you sneeze. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I can't do that because I know that pitchers change

all the time.

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