Hello and welcome to episode 1102. I'm the sleeper in the bust. It is Tuesday, September 27th.

I'm your host Paul Spore. Join this morning by Justin Mason. Justin, good morning, sir.

Good morning. How you doing? Doing pretty well. We've been hanging out chatting some baseball. So I know that both of our mornings are going all right.

Just deep diving some standings, talking about the off season, coming up just a quick reminder. By the way, we will downshift a little bit in October.

There'll be some episodes, but they won't be the same to a week. We take a little bit of a breather. But both of us have already been talking about how excited we are to dial it up for 2023 in November.

So as insane as that is to already be like, hey, let's get going. We are excited and we got a lot of things coming on the content plan for the off season.

But again, October will be a little bit cooler after we decompress a little bit from the season. But today we're going to talk about some September standouts.

Justin, I got an interesting range here of player for you on the hitting side that's been playing well in September. And as always, I'm spinning it forward to 2023. And I want to get your thoughts on these players for next year.

We talk a lot about September breakouts and building on to that. It's the last thing we've seen. I think the data has shown that a big September is not a guarantee of any success.

But that there is a little something to it. I think that's where the data has has lied. At least the last I remember it being said, I want to say our own, you know, Sarah's or our former, you know, Sarah's formally our own has done some studies on that.

You know, it's always in our heart.

I know. Even though he doesn't work at Fangas anymore. He's at the athletic.

So you know, it needs to be a part of us.

Damn right. Because he once was in this chair in my chair.

Absolutely. So, okay, I won't even amend it. He is our own. But I believe our own, you know, Sarah's did some data on this and research on that. But it might have been back, you know, after a little bit after Jose Batista had popped off.

Because remember, he had a big September that kind of indicated little did we know what an indicator it was going to be. But I think that sprung him or Jeff, I can't remember. But even so, that would be a little bit outdated bottom line is you look at it.

You assess the data and you kind of make your decision from there. There is no guarantee that a big September will bring a strong further season. But I do want to talk about these guys.

And I want to start behind the dish with Mike zoo. Oh, wait, no, sorry. Cal Rock. I'm very sorry about that.

If you click Cal Raleigh's name anywhere on the site, it takes you to Mike Zanino's page. How crazy is that?

What's funny though is I actually love Cal Raleigh. And I've, I've had my beef with Mike Zanino and has been based on that one season when he's spiked a huge batting average.

They're pretty similar. I guess the question is where Cal Raleigh's price will lie because you can pay for 25 homers in a 207 average if it's not expensive.

But if you jump up to a super expensive cost, then I start to worry about that batting average. But he is having a big September. He's been having a big second half to be honest.

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