Hello and welcome to the Approach Angle podcast, a Pitcherless podcast dedicated to teaching you all things,

fantasy baseball and baseball analytics. I'm your host, Nate Schwartz, senior analyst at Pitcher List,

and joined with me today is Kyle Bland, Director of Data Analytics and Research at Pitcher List.

And we do have a guest here with us on episode two. Alexander Chase,

esteemed educator, former pitcherless writer, and part of an older Pitcherless Pod, dugout study

hall. He'll also be joining us today to talk about our big topic, auction calculators,

draft grades, and everything else that comes along with the preseason

and draft prep. So guys, how's it going?

It's good. Happy to see y'all. I'm glad to kind of get the wheels churning on this podcast

where we start getting into our spring training and then eventually, you know, hit their

ground running be ready for the season ahead. Yeah, they say it's spring training and then eventually, you know, hit their ground run and be ready for the season ahead.

Yeah, they say it's spring training for everyone.

I literally pulled my podcast mic out of the box, where to have been packed for a couple

years while I was busy being a student myself.

So, yeah, no longer in law school mercifully, podcast is out of, Mike is out of retirement, and I'm ready to do anything other than be a lawyer for the moment.

Yeah, I mean, I really, I feel all of that today.

I think I had three slow drafts start at, like, within an hour of one another.

And it really hit me that, oh, we are in fantasy baseball season.

We're in baseball season generally.

And, you know, we come up for air in November.

So really, at the point of this, both of these guys, you know, really know the numbers,

really know that what the preseason numbers look like.

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