Hello and welcome to episode 1453 of The Sleeper and the the Bus. It is Friday, September 19th. I could have lied and said the 20th since that's when we're putting it out. But I'm your host, Paul Spoor, joined today by Justin Mason and Joe Rico. Gentlemen, what's up? Good to be back. It's been a little bit of a break, but good to be back with you guys Justin it's been forever dude I need to catch I know I haven't spoken to you in like

what would hours multiple hours it's been seven hours that's rough for you for sure

you know to go with seven hours I'm very needy I'm very needy. Right, absolutely.

And I'm there to fulfill the need. So I'll tell you how smart you are here if you got some good starting

pitcher takes because we are going to finish up our review of the meatball draft, the 11

rounds of a real draft that will count that took place now about a month ago at this point.

So obviously things have changed even since here.

You know, we're going to talk pitching today, and I'll just tell you off Rip.

You know, the last reliever to go was Ryan Helsley, and I don't know if we're going to see

that again.

Randy Rodriguez was at the peak of his powers at that time, too.

So it was a different landscape.

Let's start with starting pitching, though.

And Justin, just give me a snap takeaway about starting pitching after this year.

There's a week left, but not much is going to change on your general philosophy,

2025 in a nutshell for you fantasy starting pitching.

I mean, I think it is a lot of what I've said it was coming in the year, which is I'm

trying to avoid as much risk as possible being invited onto my teams.

You know, via, via injury and performance.

Yeah, via injury and performance. Yeah, via injury and performance.

I think I did an okay job of the injury part.

Maybe the performance part is the part I need to kind of readjust.

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