Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, February 23rd. We are back after a brief holiday, president's day, a holiday, just a vacation day for me, actually, much needed.

So on this episode, we are going to dig into late starting pitchers. You might call them starting pitcher sleepers. You might call them undervalued pitchers. You might call them cheap pitchers or pitchers with upside.

Yes, the word that I once banned on this show is fully back into our vocabulary.

So we have that going for us, which is nice.

But, yeah, late pitching is the focus on this episode.

There is absolutely no way. We will talk about every possible late pitcher over the focus on this episode. There is absolutely no way.

We will talk about every possible late pitcher over the course of one podcast.

So of course, you're free to ask questions as you always are.

If there are pictures we don't talk about today that you are curious about.

When we begin today with a pitcher that is not in this group necessarily, but we didn't talk about him on

the last episode.

And that is Casey Mize.

Question comes from Jeff, who wants to know.

Casey Mize obviously had his pitch count capped last year, and it seemed he was more

focused on pitching to contact or getting the most innings per start length out of his

pitch count.

He seems to be much lower rated amongst fantasy analyst community and as a result of his

low strikeout rates, despite seeming to have good control and location of many of his

pitches.

Is there any sense that without a strict pitch count or innings limit in place, that he will

have more quality starts and that there's potential for his strikeout rate

to tick up. It seems like an ideal post-hyped sleeper given that he was a number one

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