The trade deadline is a week away.

A lot of your compatriots are starting to look at football a little bit more.

The All-Star break is over, but we're still here watching everything going on in the baseball world here.

And Fred is back, and we're excited about that.

So all that and more on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Hey everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinky.

A new, you know, tanner, but always tan Fred Zinky, still by the door, the doorknob of fantasy.

They're the best doorknob and fancy fantasy podcasting.

But glad to have you back, Fred.

You rocked your California trip, had a great time.

Your teams are still rocking, I hope.

They're doing okay. They didn't miss me while I was gone. They managed to run themselves. It's good. It's a good reminder that you don't need to obsess over your fantasy teams for them to continue to go out and do their real jobs and play baseball and play baseball well. You know, my teams, I'd say are probably at least as good, if not better off in the standings than they were when I left for my trip. So, and admittedly, I did not check them on a daily basis as close as I would if I was at home. So actually, it is kind of a good reminder. You can check the box scores every hour, but it's not actually going to change how they do. Yeah, exactly. It is a good reminder of that, but man, it's so much more fun to watch it. But hey, same thing. When I was in Ireland, I couldn't watch a darn thing. Yeah. You know, I'm just, I just had to, just had to, you know, trust and hope that things worked for the best. So, yeah, it was tough. But yeah, here we are. A lot going on.

We're a week away from the Terry deadline.

It's actually next Tuesday.

Next Tuesday's podcast should be a lot of fun, by the way.

Hopefully, we're going to be like breaking trades as, well, we won't be breaking anything. We'll be relaying trades as they happen as we see them on Twitter as we're doing the podcast.

But one of the things that popped up just today was Tariq Scooball is available, apparently.

Although I don't think that Tigers were saying, hey, we're looking to trade Tariq Scooball.

It's more like, okay, everybody's available, make your best offer.

We're in a tank of a season.

They're not necessarily tearing it all the way down to build up again, I feel like.

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