Hello and episode 1439 of The Sleeper in the Bus.

It is Friday, August 1st, and I'm your host, Paul Spore, joined this afternoon by Justin Mason.

Justin, two months left. The deadline's over. How are you doing after that deadline yesterday?

That was a hell of a day. I mean, you know, I think Jason and I will cover most of the trades on the weekend.

So we were not going to cover them tonight.

But just to like no major starting pitchers get moved is crazy to me.

That was the craziest part.

And it makes me think that with the prices that we were seeing relievers go,

that maybe the starter prices were elevating respective to that, which I

understand, but then the teams were balking, right? They were okay with the, with the high prices

for the relievers, but equivalent packages for starters just became too much. And teams opted either

for the mid-tier starters or just nothing. And so, yeah, the big dogs didn't really go anywhere. It was a crazy reliever market. There was a lot of stuff that happened. So you and Jason will have a ready-made episode there on Sunday. You can break down the entire new twins team. They got a whole brand-new team so you can meet the new squad. But we're going to dive into the two-step for week 20 here.

A lot of repeats from last week. So guys that got moved,

so, you know, maybe our commentary probably hasn't changed with, you know,

one, one start or anything here. But let's, let's revisit Brandon fought again,

because he's still Brandon fought. Actually, I don't know if he was one of the repeats from last week. No, it was Eduardo that was a two-step guy.

I know you've liked him.

Let's look at more like a 30,000 foot view, maybe they're going further the rest of the

year and even going forward.

The home runs remain a massive issue with Fought

and makes it difficult for me to recommend him in very many spots.

I never really feel comfortable.

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