Welcome to Rates and Barrels, episode number 127. It's Thursday, August 20th.

Derek Van Riper here with Inoceris on this episode. It's Thursday, August 20th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. It's bullpen madness. We'll take a look at every bullpen in the league and discuss the stability of who is getting those save opportunities and where you might turn. If you're looking for some fallback options for saves, we'll also discuss a pressing strategy question. If you don't have

quality saves already on your roster, is it time to actually think about punting the category

in this short and season? Got some great questions in the mailbag. One about Kyle Lewis. Good question

about J.D. Martinez, which might apply to some other struggling guys with really nice track records.

Question about Kestin Hira and an idea for a single-team fantasy league, almost like a micro league, which is kind of a cool idea.

So we'll see if we can shed some light on how that could work as we roll through this episode.

Eno, happy Thursday. How are things going for you today?

It's going good.

Ready for the weekend again.

A little beer and grilling, you know, staying at home kind of weekend.

It's been a lot of that in the last few months, huh?

Yeah, I played pickleball for the first time in almost six months.

What is pickleball? You didn't play that in gym class? It's like a small flat paddle. It's probably about the size of a racquetball racket, but it's like a composite paddle. And then it's a plastic, like kind of a wiffle ball with, instead of just holes in the top, it's got holes throughout. So it's about the size of a tennis ball, and it slows down a lot because of the holes.

And it's played on a court that's about the size of the service area of a tennis court.

So it's about half as long and about only two-thirds as wide as a tennis court.

I think I would call that like racquetball.

Is that different from racquetball?

Yeah, the racquetball is inside with the walls. Paddle tennis is what some people call it, but they play with an actual tennis ball. Yes, paddle tennis. That's it. You don't play with the tennis ball. What do you play with? It's a plastic wiffle ball. It looks, um... What? It's not like a white wiffleball that you'd play in a Wiffleball baseball league with.

It's got even holes throughout, but it's about this, it's a little bit bigger, about the same size. What? Fast as growing sport in America. What? Yeah, it's real. My mind is blown, dude. My mind is blown. So when you hit it, you can do like weird things with it.

Like you can kind of whiffle it. Oh, it spins like crazy. Yeah, I mean, ball dives a lot. And it's really kind of a finesse game. So you're trying, yeah, you're almost like ping pong where you're like trying to put spin on it. Yeah. And a lot of time like doubles is a lot more common. So there's a short part of the court.

It's called the kitchen.

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