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Fred, it is pitcher injury season, not even pitchers, not only just pitchers,

but mostly pitchers. A lot, it's that time of year, I feel like, where you start to see guys

come down with it, obviously punctuated by Garrett Cole needing tummy John surgery.

Yes, I was going to put in our show notes a discussion of how like you can just feel the

pitchers getting, well, I can't, I don't feel them. I'm experiencing the pitcher is getting pushed up.

It just happens every year at this time, whether it's Cole or Grayson Rodriguez or

George Kirby or Sean Mania, it just keeps going and going.

And what we're seeing and we do this every year is in comparison to our February drafts.

Those aces seem to get pushed up a little bit. And then I also find the late round

pitchers that I was getting in, say, rounds like 24 to 30 in February are now getting picked

in, say, rounds like 20 to 23. So also we see some, I think sometimes at this point in year,

maybe certain pitchers who were sleepers, you start to see like, okay, maybe they're not going to get in the rotation.

So they start to fall off the wayside.

So maybe there's sleepers as well.

But yeah, it's definitely this is the time of year for pitcher injuries.

And then other pitchers getting pushed up because you got to get some.

Yeah, absolutely.

I want to start off with the Cole, though, and just the, you know, and just I, we know,

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