Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, June 5th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris, and you know, you know when you're

starting a podcast and your internet has been shaky for the last half hour, it's kind of like

when you're on an airplane and you take off during a thunderstorm.

This is going to be bumpy.

This might be a rough edit.

Let's just see if we can get through this before the internet goes down for the entire afternoon.

I can go without internet for pretty much the rest of the day, but I kind of need it to get the show done.

So on this episode, we will dig into the upcoming debut of Andrew Abbott as he joins the Reds rotation.

We saw Reese Olson make his debut over the weekend.

Brian Wu got the call from the Mariners that

happened after the waiver pod was recorded on Friday. A.J. Smith-Shavar showed up out of the

bullpen for Atlanta. We've got a June pitcher rankings update from Eno. So a few questions for me

that I wanted to bring to the table. And then some mailbag Monday questions as well.

So lots of ground to cover internet permitting.

We begin with Andrew Abbott, who I think is extremely difficult to evaluate for several reasons.

One, the pre-tacked ball that he started with at AA.

Two, a very brief stop at AAA.

And three, getting to pitch half of his games at Great American Ballpark as he breaks in for the Reds on Monday night.

Yeah, I tend to, I'm a little shy there, given that even somebody that the model loves in Graham Ashcraft,

and even somebody that the model loves even more in Hunter Green is not necessarily

like thriving the way that you might expect someone with his scout pedigree and his

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