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the do do do bo-boo-bo-t-t-t-t. Hello everybody and welcome to the sleeper and the bust. This is episode

number 143 and joining me today is during the all-star break ordinarily we have

you know serras but he is on the one-day disabled list and so we have stepping

in for you know none other than Brett Talley, writer at Roto and Fangraphs.

Brett, how are you?

Doing well, how are you?

Good, good, very good, thank you.

I'm very excited to have you here, especially to talk a lot of these baseball topics that we're about to get to and I think we're going to dive read into them because we've been slowly talking about trade rumors here a little bit more on the podcast and the latest rumors have Seattle

expressing some serious interest in Tampa Bayes David Price as well as

Ben Zoberst and we talked about the we've talked about a little bit about

price and on the podcast in previous episodes but it certainly seems to be that wherever price could land, he would probably pitch well.

Do you think that there is any change in his value if he were to land Lance say with Seattle.

I don't think so. The ballparks are both of average for pitchers.

I'm not looking at the park factors right now but I can't imagine there's too much of a difference for it to matter.

Man, Seattle would be really, really tough at a playoff, playoff matchup. I can't believe they're even in the

and the running for this thing, but I guess that'd be the second wild card right now.

So if they could get price, I mean, it totally makes sense. They would be really tough to beat especially in

that in the in the playoffs I I I support it even though I'm a Rangers fan

whatever we're out of it so I hate the angels I certainly don't want to see them when. I do have some respect for the A's, but I think it would be really interesting if they got them.

Yes, yes, it definitely would be. And I mean, I think, and you have mentioned this to me,

to me, probably you mentioned this in a number of places,

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