Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, February 22nd. Derek Van Riper here with

Edos-Seres. It is time for our reliever preview. We've been putting this off for several weeks. It is the position that we probably have avoided by design because it's a mess this year. It's been bad for a few years now, but it's probably worse than ever, right? Yeah, you see the thumbs down from Eno. If you're watching us on YouTube, hit the like button on this video. Be sure to subscribe to our Rates and Barrel's channel. We're going to talk about every kind of reliever. Elite closers, second-tier closers, third-tier closers, unsettled closer situations. We'll talk about sparps. We'll talk about non-closer high leverage plays that are going to help you with your ratios. So lots of reliever talk on this episode. Before we get to that, Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday?

It has been a hard Monday morning. Just cold and woke up at 5.30 thanks to the dogs.

Who knows why.

And so, you know, it's a long week in front of us.

But drafts are starting and baseball will be played.

And news is happening.

And people are saying dumb things in Seattle.

Mm-hmm.

Are getting their comeuppance for it.

So, I don't know, it's these kind of things that kind of help you swim move past the, you know,

got to walk the dogs in 30-degree weather at 6 a.m. kind of help you swim move past the, you know, got to walk the dogs in 30 degree weather

at 6 a.m. kind of Monday morning feeling you can have sometimes. Shout out to anyone who's

listening to us right now walking their dog in really terrible weather. And there are some of you

out there. I know that's one way that you kind of make it through the cold dog walking part of the season.

But a lot to get to on this episode.

And it does feel like baseball is here because pitchcon took place over the weekend.

Our friends over a pitcher list put on that great event, raised over $10,000.

Half of that going to Feeding America. So a great job by Nick Pollock, Alex Fast, and it was a lot of fun being a part of that. They're going to put all the presentations up on YouTube over the course of this week, too. So if you want to catch up on those, lots of good stuff, Eno was on a panel, I was on a panel, It was fun. Thankfully, they won't put up any recordings of that late-night poker game.

Oh, man, I got a little silly.

But it was really fun to see people and to hang out.

It was good times.

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