Samuel Bessio has agreed to an eight-year extension with the Orioles.

We'll talk about that and a whole lot more.

Coming up on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast podcast brought to you by Chalkboard.

I'm Clay Link of Roto Wire here with the legendary Todd Zolt, FSWA Hall of Famer.

You shouldn't laugh at that, Todd.

You are a good legend in this business.

And it's always a pleasure to talk with you, man.

And we'll be doing our normal thing talking about some pickups and two-start pitchers,

but mentioned the new extension for Samuel Bessayo.

And if you remember this time last week, Todd, we were talking about,

well, maybe we'll see Bessaiio in the coming days.

How quickly things move in Major League Baseball.

You called up, I think think last sunday already with

a new extension and you're hitting the ball mighty hard so clearly the Orioles like what they see and

this kind of i would assume this kind of eliminates any real reason to you know limit his

that's down the stretch well not just that adly rutchman's out so there's a good chance

that besio picks up enough action behind the plate to qualify a catcher next year otherwise he was

probably ticketed for dh only Which would really crush its value.

It would.

It would.

But I would think it wouldn't, it would hurt it because I, you'd think you would pick it up in

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