Welcome, everybody, to the Thursday Fantasy Base, Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

You may recognize a couple familiar faces.

Neither of us are James Anderson.

James taken the day off.

He spoke with you folks yesterday with Tim McLeod.

James doesn't understand, like, a lot of us, what a week off means, apparently, Jeff.

But that's all good.

It gives a couple of us a chance to come out of our football caves and more so you than me

and talk about a little bit of baseball.

You are aware that there have been some moves in baseball lately, right?

Yes, I am.

None by my own team, but that's par for the course, unfortunately, there.

So, you know what?

It has been fun.

It's been fun seeing these big contracts, these long contracts.

There's a pretty good, I'm in a score sheet mock draft, and one of the discussions big contracts these long contracts there's a pretty good i'm in a score sheet

mock draft and one of the discussions is on these long contracts and how they might be like a way to

kind of get around the average annual value kind of lengthen the contract to to lessen the hit on the

luxury tax good i'm glad they're being in their finding ways. I saw like a headline, I think

by a writer and the athletic, like, how do we close this loophole? No, don't close the loophole. I like

spending. This is good. Why are we always looking and trying to like, oh, we got to protect Pittsburgh.

No, stop. They're just profit taking.

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