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I am Ryan Warmly, joined, as always, by Mike Mayer, who wanted me very explicitly to tell everybody that he is editor-in-chief here at Fantasy Pros.

It was really important to him that I use his title.

But not as always.

We have a guest today. We had a few guests last season. We haven't really done it a lot this year, Mayor, but I was talking to George and I was like, you know what, we want to get some guests on. He's great. We talked to him during the Fantasy Fest back in March. So let's bring him on again. George Bissell from Roto World, editor, writer, a whole bunch of stuff over there, no known official title. George, thanks for coming on with us. Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. I'm honored to be one of the very few guests to come on this show. And you got me at a perfect time. We're sort of in that little transitional state before we hit the trade deadline next week. We just had the MLB draft. So we We got a bunch of new names to talk about for dynasty purposes. And we're going to have a lot of prospects moved at the trade deadline as well. So really fun time in the baseball calendar and a lot to get to. It's always an interesting couple weeks because you have that reset at the all-star break. It's kind of the unofficial start of the second half, even though technically that started a few weeks earlier, but it does feel like you're almost in a holding pattern, right, ahead of the trade deadline, just to kind of see how things shake out before you really get into the stretch run. So it's an interesting time of year. And yeah, we're definitely happy to have you on. We're going to run through some news and notes, just general stuff going on in baseball. then we want to talk about your mega update to your fantasy baseball dynasty rankings on Roto World, your top 500 players in Dynasty. So we'll talk about that. And then we're going to kind of do a second half, you know, stretch run, playoff run, kind of strategy guide from George, how we're approaching the final couple months of the season because it's hard to believe. It feels like just we were on the fest talking bold predictions that we were just mentioned before the show were largely

very incorrect and and here we are here you know just a couple weeks away from the playoffs and

head-to-head leagues and just a few months left in the season so let's go ahead and dive right in

mayor do you want to run us through some of these news and notes i i did write down the first one, which I was like, not at all fantasy actionable, but Joey Otani has five straight games with the homer, just worth notice, you know, mentioning. It's awesome. He's really good. Not really much you could talk about fantasy. What else do we have here in the news and notes? Yeah, I mean, you know, Otani, five straight games. It almost feels like any other batterer.

We would be like,

whoa,

this is incredible.

And,

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