Welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast, sponsored by WinBet and Clay Link here on this Friday with Jason Collette stepping in for Todd Zola, who's taking some well-deserved time off.

Really appreciate you coming on, Jason.

I owe you one.

Happy birthday week to you, by the way.

Thank you.

Yes.

I am now a knuckleball pitcher. I am in the 49 club. But how dare Todd take a vacation? I didn't know he's allowed to do that, considering he feels like he works nine days a week. But if anyone deserves one, Todd does. Yeah, no kidding. I got one last week, and I'm glad Todd got one in before the end of the season, just a little break, because he deserves a little breather.

He's like Cal Ripkin out here.

Pretty much.

Pretty much have to step in and, you know, save him from himself a little bit.

But no, I appreciate Todd's hard work on this show all year long. We're

going to be doing his thing with the two-star starters, grading those on a zero to five scale.

We always mentioned that it's very tentative, but this week, even more so than ever. I mean,

who the hell knows who's going to be starting the final day of the regular season for any of these teams?

We'll try our best.

And we'll give us a jumping off point for a lot of guys.

By the way, on your birthday, Shane Boz took the ball.

That was actually on your birthday, wasn't it?

It was.

That was fun to watch.

You got a win for my A.L. Tout Wars team because I acquired him at a trade from Rick and Glenn about five, six weeks ago, hoping he'd be up earlier in September. But I do appreciate the race throwing me a nice birthday present there and giving us five innings of Shane Baz. And he gave up two solo shots and I don't know if people watch the outing, but one of them was just ridiculous. Teoska Hernandez hit a 97 mile an hour fastball that was above the zone, writing at the letters. I mean, it's textbook fastball. The only way you hit that pitch out is if you're like Teoska Hernandez are like four other guys in baseball and you're sitting on the pitch. And it was like a one-two thing too. It wasn't like Sprio. I mean, it was just a perfectly executed pitch. But Teasca Hernandez is just that kind of hitter. And he went up and got it and crushed it. So you just got to tip your hat sometimes. It was like, damn, that's just really good hitting. But he looked really good.

I mean, the strike throwing, I saw that stats by stats throughout something,

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