Hello and welcome to the Rotta Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. My name is Chris Crawford.

Today is Saturday, June 24th. Thanks so much for joining us. I'm joined today by a very special guest, Ryan and Drew, are both taking care of some stuff.

So I thought I'd bring in one of my favorite people in the, kind of in the world, in the world.

My good buddy, he writes for cbs

sports and he read his work at a bunch of other places but he is doing awesome stuff over there

please welcome my friend r j anderson rj how's it going it's going well how about yourself it's

not too bad it's not too bad we're finally in the summer months whether i i'm sure is a little more

human where you are than it is for me but that's uh that's okay he's right like the last four or

five days oh has it really yeah there's a reason dc used to be a swamp right yeah that's true

that is true to its roots true to roots. So coming up on today's

episode, we're going to talk a lot about the MLB draft. Some of you know that's been a passionate thing

that I've covered for a long time. And RJ is currently doing an outstanding job covering it for the good

folks of CBS sports. So I definitely want to talk about that big for a lot of you that

are going to have dynasty drafts coming up and selecting some of these guys. So get a little bit of

detail on those guys. But before we started with that, RJ, I wanted to talk to you about some

prospects who have not made their debuts yet and kind of whether or not they have a chance to make a

fantasy impact. And the first name I wanted to talk to you about was Christian and Carnacian Strand.

Now, you've seen the Reds call up several guys already making impact already.

Matt McLean.

There's this Elie de, Elijah, I can't pronounce, Elie de la Cruz.

Oh, that guy.

I guess he's looked okay so far. He kind, he kind of sort of hit for the cycle and the youngest player to do that in a very long time. And also, Andrew Abbott has been absolutely outstanding for them on the mound as well. And Cardassio Strand acquired in the trade for Tyler Malley, a trade that I think that the twins might look back and say a little bit of uh-ohs, too, to be honest with you, even though it was a trade I liked at the time. And I do think Mali has a chance to be a solid starting pitcher for the next few years. But N. Cardassion Strand has put up absolutely monster numbers in the minor leagues. Do you think he has a chance to make an impact at the highest level this year? I think part of the reason that I'm hesitant to say yes is because

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