And the Welcome to episode 99 of the Sleeper and the Bus

podcast brought to you by fan graphs. We will be discussing the Tigers and the Twins today.

Before we get into that, just a couple of housekeeping notes.

Apologies for the sound quality on the last one.

I have fixed the issue with my microphone, so it should no longer sound like a speaker phone

So for the commenter who said something on iTunes I completely agree it sounded like garbage

And this one should sound much better so apologies in advance.

The only other two bits of baseball news before we get into those two teams.

Cole Hamels, looks like he may miss the month of April now,

this whole biceptendenitis, and we talked about this when we first discussed his injury

he's still not right so he may be out so you may want to adjust your projections accordingly

and secondly the Toronto Blue Jays have announced tarantula blue jays have announced that

mark a stromen is a serious candidate for the rotation to start the season

and i believe didn't you draft him in uh... labor you know

no i really wanted to, but I, you know, I saw him in the AFL and I love Stroman.

So, you know, the thing that the knock on him is that he's small, but I think that's a long-term consideration.

You know if you think too much about how small a guy is, you trade Scott Casimir in his peak for, you know you with the Mets god I forget

Zambrano?

Ugh.

Yes that's exactly what the guy.

So there he is.

He may end up being closer.

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