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b-t-t-t-t. Hello everybody and welcome to the sleeper and the bus. This is another

off-season edition episode number 173. I am your host Nicholas Minix and joining me today in place of Enoceris is

not other than Zach Sanders he of the recent and famous author of the end of

season rankings and specifically most recently the end of

season catcher rankings and Zach first of all obviously you've been a blogger a bit of

time for Rhodograph specifically for a while. How you doing today?

Good, how about you? Not too bad, thank you. Very much glad to have you on this

episode. Talk about a number of things we could probably talk about if we get enough time.

But we've had some questions before about how we kind of go about,

how a reader might or a listener might go about

calculating what a player has earned as opposed to

it's basically the same process as when you project like what

projection you know when you

you evaluate what projections are going to earn but it's kind of

process in reverse but we can get to that if we have time I don't know if we

do but that's something we're going to talk about as the

off season progresses because there's certainly been some curiosity about that but

certainly there are some issues we want to get into specifically for this episode

and start with some news-related items.

Specifically, first of all, I just want to say Josh Beckett plans to retire.

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