Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, May 17th, Derek Van Riper, here with Enosaris. On this episode, we will discuss another

ejection due to foreign substances, Domingo Hermon, tossed from a game on Tuesday. We'll talk

about some of my reasoning for the anti-model, Lodom approach. I'll explain it. It's not just a

hairbrain thing that I said in passing. There's actually some reason to consider looking at things that way. We're also going to talk about a few surprising pictures who have really popped in terms of earned value so far. A bunch of mailbag questions to get to a variety of topics covered there, but a lot of good questions. So I want to make sure we load it up the rundown with those today. So mid-week mailbag instead of Monday mailbag this week.

I know, let's start with Domingo Hermon.

An automatic 10-game suspension is coming.

He had to check a few starts ago against the twins and wasn't ejected,

much to the chagrin of Twins manager Rocco Baldelli.

I was watching Twins Dodgers last night when they started talking about it again.

Like, hey, what was different?

And the only thing that was really different from a situational perspective is where the game was being played.

A few weeks ago, it was at Yankee Stadium, Tuesday night.

It was on the road in Toronto. But I want to ask you,

did anything abnormal come up in the game log recently, anything in terms of spin rates or

anything that would be suspicious? If you go back as far as that 11 strikeout performance against

Cleveland in April and everyone's going to have some suspicion that Hermann may have had something

extra going on this entire time, but are you seeing anything in the numbers that actually supports

that? Not really. You know, in particular the last start, he was up 50 RPM and that is just

nothing.

That is a total nothing burger in terms of game-to-game variation.

One standard deviation of game-to-game variation is 150 RPM.

And he wasn't even one standard deviation.

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