Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, October 24th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. We have four days before our next baseball because both league championship series ended over the weekend. We've got a Philly's Astros World Series coming up. We'll break that down later in the week on the 3-0 show. We'll have our preview episode going up. I think it's Wednesday evening. We're going to do a live stream with that too.

It should start around 3 o'clock on Wednesday, 3 o'clock Eastern, that is.

So be sure to follow us on Twitter if you'd like to get the details for how and where you can watch that.

But on this episode, we continue our positional review series, Eno, and we move on to shortstops,

which are always one of the most fun positions to talk about

because there are a lot of good players

playing shortstop in Major League Baseball right now.

Yeah, that's where you put your best player, right?

I think so.

That gets the right place to put them.

Yep.

Unless you're the Giants?

Well, hey.

That seems mean to Brandon Crawford, even though it wasn't intended to be.

No, it just means, unless you've got an older team.

It is interesting to watch teams that don't have a great shortstop, kind of try to

funnel their way through it, it's rough,

you know? And I once heard, you know, from the Rockies, which not a team that we look to

normally for guidance, that they like to be good up the middle.

And first of all, duh.

But second of all, it is rough to watch a team that's not tried to be.

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