The Hello and welcome episode 759 of the sleeper in the bus.

It is Thursday, December 5th.

I'm your host Paul Spor,

joined by two gentlemen, not only Justin Mason,

but also Nick Pollack.

Got both guys here.

Justin, how you doing?

This feels like being on a date with your wife's boyfriend.

Nick, what's up?

What is happening?

I am touched to be that to use for. Well, you know, so it's setting up things and had both you kind of reach out like hey, you know, can we do episode'm doing episode I was like yeah you know what

let's just combine it let's just jump in together got enough pitching stuff to

not bore Nick while we talk about hitters hadn't talked to Justin in a while, so figured it's best to get the three of us together,

and we've actually got plenty to talk about it. I gotta say, guys, this offseason,

been one of the best, it's definitely been far and away the best in the last three years. The last two seasons

were pretty bland, we really didn't get anything. This is playing out like a what I

would call a normal off-season, right? You know it's not like the big shoes have dropped yet on Rendon,

Cole, Strasbourg. I wouldn't have expected that too, though, anyway. Like, that's not

abnormal to me. The big dogs usually aren't until the winter meetings at the

earliest anyway and often into January so that's fine but we're getting plenty of

solid mid-tier moves and we've got more that have happened since you and I last convened

Justin and tons since you and I last talk Nick. Let's start with Zach Wheeler though.

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