Welcome, everybody. This is Rates and barrels. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Al Melchior. I, of course, am here with

Enos Seris. And we're going to be talking about some deep sleepers for pitchers on this episode.

So there's going to be a lot of good stuff here. And in the process of doing that, we'll talk about

Eno's rankings, pitcher rankings, which are on the athletic, have been up there for a little bit while.

A little bit of methodology talk because there's a new projections system with some different methodology that I think is very cool that we need to talk about.

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So, you know, let's just get right into it here and talk about some sleepers. Well, actually, before we talk about the slippers, let's talk about

how you pick your sleepers. So I feel like maybe this is a dumb question, but, you know,

they say there are no such thing.

So I'm just going to go ahead and ask.

I mean, do you, how much do you use your rankings to identify sleepers?

Is it just simply a matter of kind of comparing where you've ranked a pitcher versus where they're coming up in ADP?

Well, one fun thing you can do.

So we got these new projections out out thanks to Jordan Rosenblum.

And the cool thing about them is that they're park adjusted and they include aging.

And then they use stuff and pitching plus to modify three key areas, maybe four.

One is strikeout rate and walk rate.

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