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

Today is August 31st, 2003, Wednesday, the last day of August.

Can't believe we have already gotten to this point. I have a very special guest for today's show.

He is a senior baseball writer for The Athletic. He hosts the Keith Law podcast. He's written two excellent baseball books. And he doesn't like to admit it, but we've known each other and been friends for a long time. Say hello to Mr. Keith Law. Keith. How are you doing today? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing really well. It's been, we talked about this in a little podcast that I do on my own, but we've known each other for like 13 years now.

This is like the fourth different type of show that you've been able to do a podcast.

Just keep following you, right?

Yeah, you followed me too.

Yeah, advice versa, somewhat and so forth.

Yeah.

Today we're going to be talking about prospect stuff.

We're going to be going over some prospects who have exceeded expectations,

have not lived up to expectations, and whether or not we should be excited or concerned.

Before I get into that, though, Keith, I wanted to ask you about the news that happened today.

Our friend Hannah Kaiser called it the Guardians's Angels, which is a very funny

that's pretty good actually. Yeah, it is pretty darn good. That's good. A bunch of players,

yes, absolutely, a bunch of players claimed today by the Guardians for the Angels,

Luke Gialito, Adam Moore, Rinaldo Lopez. First thing I want to ask you, Keith, is one, actually, it'll be a two-part question.

One, is Cleveland still in this thing and how much does this help?

And two, is this real stupid?

Because I personally believe that we should probably have something that can't allow this to happen

where one team is getting all of these guys when other teams are making these claims.

What do you say to both?

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