Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, January 30th, Derek and Riper, Enoceris here with you. Pitcher Week continues. This is the third episode we have focused on starting

pitching. Conversation will pick up in just a couple of minutes. Around that pick 175 to 200 marker,

I was overly optimistic in part two of the series. I thought we could cover a little more ground

than we did. A couple reminders before we get started, you can join our Discord with the link in the show description. There you can have a lot of conversations about fantasy baseball, different teams, the moves they're making. Or you can jump into the Hive Mind Rankings channel. Submit your rankings for our listener ranks. Those will be turned around probably in about two weeks or so. We'll let a lot of responses come in. All the positions we've talked about so far in this series are available for your submissions, thanks

to the many of you who've already taken the time to offer those up. Okay, preamble short today,

Eno, because we are behind. We continue in what we call the Tier 5B. The tiers just have no meaning anymore.

They're just slices of players that we're looking at along the way. It's another huge group. I think

it's eight pitchers. Ryan Pepio, Shane Boz, Brandon Fott, Sett Lugo, Sean Mania, Christopher

Sanchez, Taj Bradley, and Zach Eflin.

A very different group of pitchers offering some pretty different things along the way.

But I love that Ryan Pepio is first because you seem to really like Ryan Pepio quite a bit.

And I'm wondering just how long we're going to see him living in this space just in front of Pick 200.

First off, maybe the most interesting thing is a negative thing.

As a king of Wofflers, I have to start with the negative, I guess, even though I love him.

And that is that the old park, Tropicana Field, the normal raised park,

has a park factor for Stuff Plus.

It is the park that inflates Stuff Plus the most.

We've been talking about why does Tampa have this park factor for strikeouts?

And I think we've figured it out.

It's not necessarily the lighting.

It's not necessarily,

you know, something to do temperature-wise because it is a dome, you know, it's that the factors, I think it's the dome

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