You're listening to Wins Above Fantasy, part of the Pitcherless podcast network with Van Burnett and Steve Giswelly.

Welcome back, everyone, and it is Wins Above Fantasy episode 154.

Today is Thursday on the podcast, September 5th.

I'm Van Burnett, joined as always by Steve Gisweli.

If you guys are stumbling across the live recording, I know it's a few days earlier this week,

but we got a fantastic show ahead talking late season, breakout starting pitchers.

Steve, this was a good topic, a good observation that we've been on a run and rightfully

so of instant waiver ad, you know, kind of guys at the top of the feed on the free agents,

the past few shows, but it's been a minute since we've kind of

come up above water and looked at some of these second half trends. And even later than that,

August, September again, tends to be the time of the year where people kind of switch off a little

bit. And there's an advantage to be gained when you kind of monitor some of these

breakouts. So I know myself, Steve, looking down the rundown, some of these names were on my

radar. I knew they were putting together good seasons, at least good second halfs of the season,

but then when you really dig into the numbers, some of it is eye-popping. And we're going to

talk about those stats. We're

going to be talking about the implications. And what's the off-season looking like? What's the

draft value? Are we buying or selling? Of course, we've got months and months in the off-season

to do that. But it's going to be great to do this one, pitching edition,

and then we'll follow up likely next, either next week or the week after,

with the hitter edition of this.

But Steve, three-day weekend, as we record this, I know we were talking offline.

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