Welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host James Anderson and got a multi-time guest, Tim McLeod, coming back on the show with me tonight.

Always love talking with Tim about the players coming from Asia every off season.

Tim's great at all aspects of fantasy baseball, but especially attuned to what's

happening over there. So thanks, Tim, for joining me. How are you doing, man? I am just doing great, James.

Thanks so much for having me on. I look forward to this podcast every year. It seems like within a

couple of weeks, you know, towards the middle

end of November and start reviewing some of the Asian players heading back. And there's a

slew of them this year. Yeah, absolutely. It's, it's a loaded year. And I thought it would be

good for us to just kind of go in order the way these guys are getting drafted right now.

I'm in my first DC of the official offseason right now in the second round of that one.

So people are draft and people are eyeing these guys up.

And I want to start with Tatsuya Imi, a pitcher that I've talked about briefly with

Enoceras on last week's episode.

But I think it's worth leading off with Imi.

We're always looking for impact pitching whenever we can get it in our drafts, upside pitching,

strikeouts, et cetera. What do you, what's your evaluation to be my, Tim, and what do you think

is in store for him in 2026? I think there's a lot of good things in store, James.

One of the individuals in Japan that I've been following for years, Jim Allen.

He used to be with the Yamuri newspaper there, and he's got his own site.

And he was asked about my stuff and the pure stuff is as good as Yamamoto.

The command and control is not at the same level.

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