Hello, welcome to episode 999 of The Sleeper and The Bust.

It is Tuesday, December or January 11th, I'm your host, Paul Skore, joined this morning

by Justin Mason. Justin, that's an indication of how quickly things are going that I kind

of can't believe that we're already in this mid-January. How you doing?

I'm tired, but doing pretty well today all things considered. Do you see that news on

the CDA?

Yeah, that they're having an agreement or a planning session tomorrow?

Yeah, a couple days. Yeah, listen, it's something, right?

And so we'll grab ahold of it. There was a passing tweet talking about, you know, they're

looking to really make some movement. So we'll see. You know, I'm not going to go, I'm not going

to get my hopes too high, but I'm excited. I'm glad. I'm glad I'm glad there's movement. That's

all. Me too. That's encouraging because I really thought they were going to wait till like the

week before Pitchers and Catchers Record kind of stuff that they're even willing to meet in January

is a pretty good feeling. And yeah, I'm excited. They really have to understand how stupid it

would be to lose any games, even a spring training game. I really, really hope they understand

just how bad that would be. But anyway, we're going to play a little game today.

We're going to play some steamer shopping looking at the steamer projections.

Two guys want, you know, two guys at each position here around the diamond for hitting positions.

And I'm going to kind of mix it up, you know, sometimes I'm going to give you the names,

sometimes I'm going to give you the projections that we're just going to see.

If it changes anything as far as your outlooks on these guys, because I know,

sometimes when I see the projections, I'm like, well, dang, maybe I need to give this player a

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