Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, February 22nd, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you.

Resuming our team preview series.

We're halfway through 15 team previews in the books, 15 more to go.

And today the focus will be on the top, the projected top of the AL Central.

We'll have some twins breakdowns, guardians, and tigers as well.

And we have a few news items we're going to get to before we dig into those. Also a quick reminder, we're going to put an updated link for the

Discord invite in the show description for today. I think the old one expired. We just do that

from time to time to make sure that stays fresh. So New Link will come out with this episode.

So apologies if you had some trouble joining that in the last 24 hours or so.

On the news front, Eno, a tough day for the Mets, Kodi Shingya has been revealed to have a moderate strain in the back of his right shoulder.

He'll begin the season on the I.l according to david stern so

just how much are you dropping sanga based on this early spring training news i am dropping him

all the way down to the 90s in my rankings, I believe.

Starting the season on IAL, it's just,

there's so many leagues where that is problematic.

In a 10-team league, if you don't have many IL slots,

why do it?

You just need to have pitchers pitching.

In a draft and hold, you're going to take a guy who's injured now um that seems like a bad deal because you know you draft like there's going to be plenty of times

when you have so many injured pitchers you you can't fill the lineup so you can't you can't

draft a lot of guys who are injured right now so um you know I think the use case for him is, is maybe similar to Kyle Bradish,

but Cal Bradish, at least, they haven't said, you know, he's starting on the IL.

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