Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, May 7th. Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, Jed Lowry here with you on this episode.

We discuss a few peculiar happenings from Tuesday night.

There were two very bizarre things. One kind of historically unusual. One kind of embarrassing,

but also prompting a question like, how do you recover from this? A question that I think

Jed can shed some specific light onto. We're going to talk about the Orioles a bit because good teams can have bad starts too. At least that's what I'm attributing this slow start to the Orioles, just kind of bad luck, confluence of events. We'll dig into what's going on there. Maybe some things we would have done differently if we had the GM shoes on for the past year, year and a half, and then we'll take a look at the Mariners surging offense.

We broke down Julio Rodriguez a couple of weeks ago on the show.

Feels like a couple of years ago now.

It was a couple weeks ago.

But the Mariners have a top five offense.

We'll dig into how much of that we believe in through the first month and change of the season.

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Let's start with the weird occurrences from Tuesday. And we're going to start with Ryan Presley's

bad day at the office. It was a to start with Ryan Presley's bad day at the office.

It was a brutal line.

Ryan Presley gave up nine runs, eight were earned, on five hits in a walk, without recording

and out, adding more than five runs to his ERA in the process.

I think if you had the story that dropped today one day earlier, it would have been

calling your shot in the most extreme and unfortunate way for Ryan Presley.

Yeah, there's a lot of people claiming that I'm just piling on because of last night, but that's

almost a 3,000 word piece that had to be seen by multiple editors and a graphics team.

So that was done way before the game.

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