Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 19th. Derek Van Riper, In know Saris here with you as our position preview series

rolls along. This is episode four in the series already. Busy week for us as we move on to the

first base position. I think we left yesterday's show talking about the A's depth chart and

trying to figure out why it smelled like soup in my house. So. And there was no soup.

There was no soup.

That was the conclusion.

None.

What happened when you went downstairs said, where's the soup?

They just looked to me like, what are you talking about?

This is why I think I need to go see a doctor.

I think I'm okay.

I just want to be sure that I'm okay.

Well, we are fully prepared to talk of a lot about Jake Bauer's.

We'll just name this the Jake Bauer's podcast, I think, out of time.

That's probably where the episode ends, some place around a Jake Bauer's conversation

and me being upset about the Brewer's first base situation.

But plenty of teams have great first base situations, and that's where we're going to

focus the beginning of the show.

Freddie Freeman leads off Tier 1.

He's a solid first rounder at this point.

It seemed like for years he was the guy that people would reluctantly take at the end of

round 1.

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