Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Monday, June 30th.

Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, with you on this episode.

We got a little bit of baseball news you should know,

including an injury that

has sent Jeremy Payne to the IL, a critically important part of that Astros lineup, especially

as they've spent a lot of time in this first half without Yordaun Elvarez. We learned of the

passing of Hall of Famer Dave Parker. We'll talk a little bit about Parker here in just a few

minutes. We're going to take a look at the

rolling one-year leaderboard for hitters because it's June 30th. Where is our summer going? Where did the

first half of 2025 go? This year is flying by. Time is going too fast right now. That's right. It's

time to look at people who had their, their halves in a weird way,

you know, like the good second half and the good first half and really had a great year,

but we under the cover maybe, or a bad year. There's a couple ones on the bad list that I was a

little surprised by. The bad list is, I think, a group of players that are true, longer term, by lows for the most part.

You're actually getting a discount right now.

You can actually get them if you want them.

If you want them, many of them can be acquired via trade and probably are tradable in real life too.

And we'll see some surprise names moved at the trade deadline here in just about a month. And as we do every Monday, we will get into where the money went. Look at what we did with our teams over the weekend from a free agent perspective. If you haven't done so already, join the Discord. You can do that with the link in the show description. That's a great way to send us mailbag questions for a future episode and to hang out with us, as well as other listeners and viewers of the show. If you're watching us on YouTube, smash that like button and subscribe to the YouTube channel. If you haven't done so already, lots of good stuff rolling out there pretty much every day throughout the week. So that's pretty nice to have that going. Think about where we started. Yeah, time flies. Look back at the original YouTube

content we were putting out. We had some beautiful thumbnails back in the day. So we've really come a long

way. They weren't very good. Eno once made shirtless Tyler O'Neill pop up out of a cake,

which I feel like given your level of Photoshop was actually a pretty big achievement.

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