There's two weeks left in the season.

We have a bunch of pennant races to watch.

A couple big series going on right now.

Here to talk with me is my really good friend,

Joe Sheehan from the Joe Sheehan Baseball newsletter,

joshean.com.

We're going to talk a lot of wide-ranging topics coming next

on the Roto Wireire's fantasy baseball podcast, brought to you by the folks from So Rare.

I'm Jeff Erickson here with Joe Sheehan from the Joe Shean baseball newsletter. Go to Joe Sheehan.com or follow him on Twitter at Joe underscore Sheehan. And you can check out all of his samples there. Hopefully you want to subscribe. It's going to be a very busy time. Joe, I know Pennet race, playoff season, you are a prolific writer. So this is a big time for you. I'm excited to come on here, Jeff, and talk college football with you today.

Trojan, fight on.

How does, how has Northwestern doing?

What time is it?

Hey, who are you guys playing this weekend?

Oregon State, a lake game, 630, 930 Eastern.

Yeah, well, I mean, that's the Pac-12.

We play nine. So that's part of it. So it's the big 10 now. Yeah, I mean, it's already the fourth week of the season. So this is what it really is supposed to start. So it's tough. I was there last year. Actually, the last SC game I went to was a year ago. we got absolutely obliterated by Oregon State of the Coliseum.

So a little bit of a revenge game this weekend.

Yeah, that's right.

I remember the game. That was the Clay Hilton fired game. Yes, mercifully. Yeah. They already look at worlds different, but, you know, the transfer portal, NILs and all that, they can change things. You can turn on a dime really quickly. So it's not. So, but anyhow, they look really fun to watch. So good luck with that. Lots going on. Let's talk. I want to talk a little bit about the, just the Cleveland having themselves a heck of a week. First, finishing off the twins. Now like they're doing the same to the White Sox now in the first two games of the series so far this week. Yeah, I mean, we saw Krista McKenzie look fantastic last night. And that's been a big part of the Guardian success this year where they've gotten pitching depth that I didn't know that they would have. McKenzie's taken a step forward. Bieber's gotten back to that best pitch, you know, one of the best pitchers of baseball level. Cal Quantrell's given them a surprisingly good season. So I didn't think they had pitching depth, and those front three guys have been very good. I think you look at the bullpen where we knew about a Claise, knew about James Corinchak, who was actually terrible in the second half last year, with a bunch of guys, Trevor Stephan and Sam Hensches, Enel de la Sentes,

I just didn't think they'd be this good at run prevention because I didn't think they had the depth in arms. Now, whether it was a misread of the talent or what I think more, it's just underestimating the Guardian's ability to develop pitchers. Yes. I didn't think they were going to even be a 500 team. And they've actually, I'll say they've run away with the division, but they held off.

They've never been

out of first place since like earlier in the seasons. They caught the twins. Twins caught them to tie about three weeks ago, but the Guardians have gone on this incredible run, took seven of eight from the twins, now taking the first two from the White Sox and basically locked up the division. Yeah, they eviscerated the twins in that five game series,

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