Hello, and welcome to episode 1435 on The Sleeper in the Bus.

It is Friday, September, July 18th.

I'm your host, Paul's 4th, join this afternoon by Justin Mason.

My brain and mouth went to say September.

I wish it was September.

Yeah, I wish it was.

I don't yet.

I still, I'm still ready for one more big crush here in baseball and then we're going to have to give it up.

You know, football is going to take over soon and then the season will be over before we know it.

But there's still a lot to go and there's a ton of two start pitchers to get into for next week.

Many of whom are, you know, worthy of some discussion here, whether it's in all formats or Shell versus Deep, you know, type of discussions. Not as many aces, Justin, going as I would have thought with a lot of guys not going this weekend either. I would have thought that they were going to be lined up for Monday, but you brought up an interesting point that they're not necessarily playing for Monday because a two-start week in real life doesn't mean anything. They don't care. But you brought up how they're

probably playing to some schedules and mapping it out that way, regardless of if the starter,

the ace gets, you know, an extra four days right now. If they're facing the Dodgers in four days,

it makes sense to hold that guy. And you and you got burned by that with Robbie Ray, right? Yeah, yeah. Robbie Ray was originally scheduled to have a two-star starting Monday, and then they switched it, and I didn't notice it in time, and my lineup got a lot. So, just brutal is what it is. Like, so on you like in that league it's how wars where

like i have 72 of the 75 pitching points already so like i don't really need him yeah you're not

you're not dying like with every start but it's just a bummer but yeah so that does make a ton of

sense that teams would actually just map out against the schedule as opposed to just get your aces right back immediately.

So to that end, we end up with a ton of names and we just need to dive into them because I think a lot are going to foster some big discussions.

And I think I mentioned it last time, but this guy's still on this list right now.

Zach Gallen needs to be talked about. He is far from a set it and forget it must start type of guy. He gets the sweet and sour combo. Unfortunately, it goes sour sweet. It's Houston and then at Pittsburgh. And then, of course, we always have that concern about any little thing happening and costing us the sweet start at the end. Now, there's no weather concerns or anything like that. Yeah, so you're not as concerned about it. It would just be like day skipage or something like that. That's the only thing that can happen. I feel confident he's going to get this. And as such, I'm a little bit open to Gowan here, even though Houston is scary. Where do you come out with Gowan? And what formats would you consider him? I think I'm only really considering him in a 15. I think in a 12, it's borderline if you really don't have any other good options. The thing about it is, you kind of already alluded to it, there's a lot of names on this list. Right. So you can go a lot of

different pads. You know, like you just don't know what you're going to get from Gallant. I thought

he, you know, he added a new pitch recently. It seemed to be working. He had, you know, two games with

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