But yeah, you should listen to that part. I enjoy that little riff. All right, I think we're good to go 988

about to be live and in charge. I trust that we're recording. We are. And you can hear me well. I can. All right, three, two, one.

Hello and welcome to episode 98 of the Sleeper and the Boss. It is Tuesday, November 23rd. I'm your host, Paul Spore. Join this morning by Justin Mason, Justin. Good morning, sir.

Good morning to you. How are you? I'm doing well getting ready for Thanksgiving. All the food that comes along with that. So excited, excited for that. Same. We got the Christmas tree up. I fought, I fought hard, but it didn't, didn't work. Are you like an anti Christmas person?

No, not at all. Not not an anti Christmas person. I'm an anti Christmas creep, you know, it pushing itself further and further into November. So I'm like, you know, we could put it up Thanksgiving weekend or the weekend after that, but it's up this weekend. It does look great.

I love how it lights up the room that it's in. No, I'm all for it. Christmas lights and putting the ornaments on the tree. I got a bunch of those hallmark sports figure ones.

I love those. So I got I got a Barry bonds one off the internet last year that really that really brings the tree together. So no, it's not that I'm anti. It's just I thought maybe it was a little early, but you know what?

It ain't harming anybody. So I'm excited for Thanksgiving should be fun, but we got baseball to talk about. And you know, we continue to get some movement. I know we all expected this off season to be painfully slow.

It's been a pretty standard one. I don't I wouldn't say it's been overly fast either, but it's just been kind of a lot more normal than I think we would expect.

And I'm actually changing the very top things I forgot that this is actually something that we haven't discussed.

So we will talk about Justin Burlander resigning with Houston first on a on a one year deal, which it kind of makes sense.

Right. I know there was a lot of talk of oh, we'll go back to Detroit, but it seems like going somewhere where he's comfortable. One of those two teams made the most sense.

So he gets a 25 million deal from the from the from the Astros. That's where he's headed. I think it's a good fit. Where are you on his health, though, 38 year old coming off the coming off the TJ.

I think he was like throwing 97 98 a little in a little tune up. Are you back in on Justin Burlander?

Not compared to the market. So where where he got him where you got him in the most recent rank. By the way, you're updating your you're already on second run of ranks. So folks want us kind of see how you're moving with things.

I love that you're that you're already on the second run.

Yeah, I'm I've already got let's see catcher first second in short will be up by time anybody can listen to this.

For the second time, right for the second round.

Yeah, tomorrow the second run of third base and outfield goes up and as we talk outfield that may change.

As as we talk, I'm sure I will move guys up or down depending on our conversations today, but Verlander, I have it 59.

And the market currently has him at 60, but you have to factor in closers.

I do not have to factor in closers because on the ranks, you can sort by the ADP and I've taken out all the all the relievers.

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