Hello and welcome to episode 1424 of The Sleeper and the Bust.

It is Thursday, June 5th.

I'm your host, Paul Sporer.

Join this afternoon by Joe Rico, no Justin Mason, but Joe's back.

Joe's off the IEL.

How's it going, Joe?

I keep going back and forth.

They're doing this shuffling to the IL and back every couple weeks. But good to be healthy. I would feel a lot better if I didn't start Hazers Lozardo everywhere this week, hoping for the rebound.

But you know what?

I was on it.

The ratios are gone, Paul, between Dick Fitz, between Brandon fought, Lazzardo.

Forget about the ratios at this point.

Yeah, the ratios are absolutely cooked for quite a while at that point. I was in on the bring,

you know, bring Lazzardo back for the rebound. The one caveat I gave, which is unknown, but I wonder

if we're going to, we're going to get an answer on it. I said, you know, there was no injury reason

why he pitched so poorly in that one outing, the 12 earned run outing. So let's run it back.

Now we get another devastation here.

I wonder if we're going to get something injury related here.

I don't know.

It couldn't just be two bad starts in a row with 20 earned runs, perhaps.

But it's pretty much ruined his entire season,

and he had been pitching so, so very well,

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