Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, March 5th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaurus.

Eno live from Peoria.

Are you on the backfields in Peoria?

Yes, I am.

I was looking for a place to set up, and I had almost had one,

except that Yuki Matsui had a bullpen session today.

And so the comfortable seats that I was sitting on that were,

you know,

kind of shaded were all taken up by the press conference area.

Plus,

I was sitting where players eat.

And I thought it might be weird to give analysis on players.

At least it wasn't be them.

And wouldn't be talking about the Padres in front of the Padres. But yeah, so that's what's going on here. Matsui looks healthy. He threw a good pen. His back didn't bother him. Got to see a Musgrove pen. Talk to Xander Bogart's for a second. So, yeah, a successful day at camp. I'm on my way to a sunburn. As you've mentioned, it's probably happening right now. Yeah, send SPF 50. Send some aloe. It's going to be a burn happening while we record this show. The hazards of being a baseball writer at spring training. Got to get the hat. Got to get the sunscreen. Spring training, you know, day two, checking in live from San Diego. Always making rookie mistakes, dude. Well, you know, there's always opportunity for growth. That's the way to look at it. One follow-up real quick before we get to our team previews. Today we're going to break down the Red Sox, the Marlins, and the Nationals. We did get the long-anticipated update from the surgeon that performed knee surgery on Ronald O'Cunia Jr.

A few years back.

Dr. Neil Lutrush confirmed the initial diagnosis of irritation in Acuna's meniscus, which is great news because that means he's likely

going to be ready for opening day. So as we discussed yesterday, no need to, you know, panic,

no need to drop him out of that top spot. You can maybe close the gap slightly between

Acuna and the field, but he still probably belongs in that one one position given the confirmation of that initial diagnosis.

Yeah, I'm glad we didn't panic here on the show. It would have been easy to panic.

But, you know, nobody said any of the bad words when it comes to possible surgery or anything torn. So irritation of the

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