Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. Hey, thanks to Jerome Chang for making us an awesome

intro for the show. It's cool to have a logo and some music now on video. It's not just

me selling something and then going with the show. A little awkward. So Jerome's awesome.

Love the intro. I'm going to keep adding

more, more cool stuff here as we roll along. Derek Van Riper here today with Enoseres.

Bells and whistles. Oh yes, bells and whistles. More toys. More gadgets. More fart guns.

Yeah. I've got mine ready if we need it. Yeah, I'm glad you still have that because I don't want to ask people who make cool things for a living to make fart guns sounds easier for us to use.

I feel like if you're going to resort to that level, you should have to actually reach for the toy and use it.

I just want a little button on my computer that I can touch.

Can I just have a clip that does it?

No, use the, use the prop.

It's funny to use the prop.

So hit that like button if you're watching us on YouTube.

Thanks to all of you listening along on the podcast version of the show.

On this episode, we're going to talk about some new-ish pictures to take a look at their stuff in command numbers, get a sense for what those guys might do as they get more and more experience here in the next few weeks.

We have an email with the subject line, Freddie Peralta, greatest of all time.

We are not talking about Freddie Peralta.

It was just a clever trick used by one of our listeners to ask a question about velocity and whether or not velocity is overrated. So we'll tackle that question. And we'll dig into some of the rest of season projections, the outliers, the guys that surprise us. We'll look at hitters mostly on today's show because C.J. Crone was the focus of a question. I think there's a couple of their names that really stood out to me as I was looking at that list again, thinking about the second half of the season. You know, how was your weekend, by the way? I know you had some big plans. The interesting party you had planned for Saturday. How'd that go? It was good. The fight was pretty good. In fact, it was strange. There was two fights on.

ESPN had a fight and pay-per-view. So we, I think, you know, with all the undercards, we saw like six boxing matches. It was pretty good.

And good beer was had. It was fun to see people and not have to run, you know, keep an eye out on the kids.

So, yeah, it was, it was, it was like after when some of my friends left, we were like, hey,

let's do that again. Let's, let's, let's be adults. Let's get our lives back. Yeah, let's get our

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