Welcome to Rates and barrels, episode number 129. It's Tuesday, August 25th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this

episode. Guess what? The ball is different. Yet again, we'll talk about how it is different here in 2020.

And we'll discuss hitters with improved strikeout rates this season, young relievers with

potential paths to starting roles in the future and several great mailbag

questions as well you know how's it going for you on this tuesday it's going well and i'm ready

to talk some baseball i've you know there was a discussion last night on twitter about how much

we should wait how well uh a fantasy manager does in this season, you know,

there are these metrics like, you know, in TGFBI, there's like a, there's like an overall

ranking that's like a multi-year ranking. And I think Smata, fantasy baseball, who

handles that ranking was saying, like, maybe we shouldn't wait this year at all.

And I was arguing that we should wait at some, maybe less than exactly how long the season was compared to other seasons, just because it has been difficult.

But I do think that as much as the season has been trying,

I think it has taught me some stuff about FAB, about team construction. I used to be all

pitching on my benches, and I have definitely gone over to more hitting on my benches as we've

had these COVID cancellations and just

realizing how hard it is to always field as many plate appearances as you'd like. So if I've

learned from this season, I feel like it says that this season was worth something and that

you know, we're all out here playing. I feel like

it does mean something. And I'm not sure it means as much as a full season, just because there

are so many things that you could just paper over in a long season, be like, oh, that was just a bad

stretch, whereas in this season, it'll turn into a player, a value killer for a

player. So it is not a full 162, but I, and I've had some difficulty playing this year.

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