Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, June 18th. Derek Van Rhyme, Verino, Saras, Trevor May here with you on this episode.

We dig into communication in baseball because it's been fun from the outside

looking in, trying to understand who is saying what and why and tone. And we've got all sorts of

stuff from the Raphael Devers trade. We've got different ways to people involved in that trade

have discussed it. Davy Martinez going off over the weekend. So we'll dig into a

couple of recent examples of what goes right, what goes wrong, and why things might be that way.

We're also going to talk about returning from Tommy John surgery. We had Shohei Otani come back,

pitch one inning in his first outing back, and a lot of observations about how he looked

mechanically. Trevor's got some really good explanation for why that might be the way things are.

And we've got some baseball news you should know, along with time permitting, perhaps, another name that dude.

It has been too long.

I just wanted to make Eno nervous for the next 55 minutes having to think about the possible.

I'm going to screw this up as the first thought I had.

Like I have like minus minus makeup when it comes to this sort of thing.

It's maybe the only thing I've found that you're truly not thriving at.

So it's an opportunity. You're just bringing it up.

I'm already stumbling over my words.

Probably a bad idea for the host to do that.

I will learn from my own mistakes.

It surprised me.

I don't want to think about it.

A little bit of baseball news you should know off the top. I just think this is kind of

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