The Hello, welcome to episode 884 of The Sleeper and the Bus. It is Thursday. No, it's Thursday.

It's Thursday. You know, I completely forgot. I really did. Keep it in. We're doing it.

January 21st. I'm your host Paul Spoor.

And I'm joined by Justin Mason.

Justin, good morning, sir.

Good morning to you.

I thought I'd be the one of little absent mind considering it currently at 41 degrees in my office.

Dude, I really had no idea. I really was like, I don't know which day it is.

Completely forgot. You were overwhelmed by the amount of moves that have happened.

Correct. And the rumor that you just informed me of that I didn't even know about, that perhaps

the Braves may get in on J.T. Ralmuto. So I completely forgot the day, like a giant idiot.

But yeah, we have some moves to talk about, including like an interesting little saga with one of the players.

And then we'll get into some starting pictures. I don't know how many yet because we do have a hard stop so

we'll have to determine it based on how the transactions go. But let's just dive right in then.

And talk about George Springer. He lands. And he lands with Toronto, which was heavily rumored.

It seemed down to Toronto in New York.

He wanted to be nearish, Connecticut, his hometown, his home state rather.

And so those two teams made sense two teams that are

contending the Jays land him and then what it looked like was they landed

Michael Brantley right after that. That is not true.

Just Springer.

We'll get to Brantley in a moment,

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