Welcome in Friends to Rates and Beryls.

I'm Chris Welsh. That is Enos Seris. We are in the final

throws of the season. It's playoff time. There's only a couple more weeks. Only so many

things that we can talk about, my friend, but we've got plenty of them like unfortunate injuries,

a lot of pitching notes. We're just going to set the whole groundwork for you for this week on the fantasy baseball side and the baseball side.

And also remind you guys, you guys can pick up a subscription to The Athletic for like a buck a month.

Go to theathletic.com slash rates and barrels where you can get all the amazing content.

Eno's got some awesome stuff that I've been privy to that's coming up here in the very

near future, you know.

Yeah, excited for a Corbyn Carole piece, and the mailbags were kind of fun.

I got to a little bit more like a Q&A where I get to dig into it.

So last week I tried to fix the Cardinals.

I gave them Shota,anaga and Sunny Gray.

Oh, really?

I would be interested that they could pay for a Monica.

Well, they probably have like $35 to $40 million coming off the books that they could use.

You know, there's a better way to use $18 million a year than they used on Adam Wainwright this

year.

So, you know, there's ways that they can take existing budget.

Somebody gave me a fairly backhand of praise saying that you rarely saw this much insight

into the way that DeWitt works his teams

than to suggest that the Cardinals should sign the third best Japanese pitcher and a

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