Welcome to rates and barrels.

It's Monday, November 14th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode.

We focus on our 20-22 first base review, or about halfway through this series.

So I imagine, I don't know, before we get to the December holiday season, or at least the end of the December holidays,

we'll have this series completely wrapped up just in time for the start of 2023. It's funny how those

things work out with just a little bit of planning, right? Yeah, then we get to start all over

again, where we preview. The previews will be very different than the reviews. I'm just

wholly completely different. Absolutely different. So we're

working on the how exactly right now. That's what we're working on and then recording these

episodes as we go along. But it's better to keep the conversation going in November and

December. I've worked on podcasts that sort of go away for a couple of months in the off season.

You do maybe a handful of episodes and that's okay, but I'd rather just keep talking and thinking about the problems at hand and trying to learn stuff from the past year.

So that is what we are going to do.

Now, first base is one of these positions that I have looked at more closely

in recent years as a priority position. I used to think, oh, there's always a first baseman. Every team

has someone that can pop 20 homers, and I can tuck myself into a half dozen of those guys outside

of the top 200 as players capable of maybe getting to 30 homers and maybe getting 80 to 90 runs and 80 to 90 RBIs.

And the truth is, a lot of those players in that range will bust or they simply don't play every day because they share their position.

They share that role.

Or because of the attrition rate at this position, they just that role, or because of the attrition

rate at this position, they just drop off the face of the earth completely over the

...