Welcome to Rates and Beryls. It's Thursday, November 10th. Derek Van Riper here with

Enosaris as we continue our positional review

series. Third base will be the position we focus on today. But first, an important question for

Eno. Eno, how was Arizona? How was first pitch? There's a lot of fun. I stayed hydrated

and got to see some games.

A first ever in the Arizona Fall League, a home run derby, which was weird because it

went up against game six of the World Series, which I was also watching.

I had a moment where I was watching an 18-year-old

first base prospect for the debacks, I believe his last name is De Los Santos, and he looks as if

he's 45 in the face. And a prospect that I talked to at the Fall League said he is not a baseball player.

And he was hitting 117 mile per hour pea missiles, you know, out of the park, second deck, you know, out of a small park.

That was happening as Yorna Alvarez hit a, was it a three-run homer?

Yeah.

In that game.

So a little bit of strange cognitive dissonance, a little bit of kind of like what's going on here.

And also at a scouting event to have a home run derby, which was massively popular, more popular than any other game I intended to and maybe more popular than the All-Star game.

Really?

In terms of fan attendance.

In terms of scouting, not super useful, although I was hanging out with a scout that mentioned

that at least you can kind of see where people's power is.

So Eduardo Julian, who is, was a surprising entrance into the, into the, um, home run derby because he's not,

he's kind of like a 20 home run guy maybe, um, that is all about on base. Like, that dude gets

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