The Hello and welcome

episode 1257 of the Sleeper in the Bust it Thursday, February 15th. I'm your host Paul Spoor joined this afternoon by Justin Mason. Justin.

Pictures and Catchers are reporting and I heard Justin Mason's in the best shape of his life. How you doing?

I am the best shape of my life. I always am because I am in a shape. It is a pair shape, I think.

I'm in a stick shape. Yeah, it's a shape.

You know, I'm shaped like a pretzel rod, but it is indeed a shape.

Pictures catchers are reporting, the snap of the glove,

you know, few things hit harder than that for me.

I love that sound sound but the inevitability of the

injuries we talk about this every year it's that it's that rug pull we get so excited

we can't wait and then the injuries come fast and furious and it took mere minutes today

Before a few bits of news came out one particularly bad the other two a little less worrisome and we'll talk about how we're reacting to them

but let's get into those and then get into some more outfielders. Let's start with

the big one man this one's already kicking a few of my teams directly in the midsection.

Kyle Bradish diagnosed with a UCL spring will begin the season on the I.

I'm done drafting him. I'm just done drafting him even in I.

It's just we've talked about this concept that's just not what we're going to do

there are certain leagues with unlimited I-L. You can make a case that the price drops to a certain degree.

The bulk of our work is in the NFCC realm where you have seven reserves and that's it in a league like that you just

can't get me to draft somebody who's starting on the I. I'm sorry I do not

care and as much as I love Braddish he also doesn't have the track record to where I would even start to consider it.

Right? There might be a certain level where a player is at, you know, of stardom where I say,

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