Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, February 5th, Derek Van Riper, you know Saris.

We've made it through the position preview series. We're on the other Van Riper, you know, Saris, we've made it through the position

preview series. We're on the other side of it, you know, lots of great episodes in the feed

if you're just joining us for the first time here now that we're into the early part of February

and a lot of content in the last couple of weeks that we managed to get out. Yeah, and we're

going to take a break before we go into team previews and and just have like a regular news show. I mean, there was a lot of news that we've missed that we sort of have to pick up and make sure that we get a little bit of analysis on at least. Absolutely. We squeezed in a little bit of news a couple weeks ago. It always feels weird to do that on those preview episodes. So we're going to start with a big trade that went down last week, Thursday. We almost had an emergency pod. I think we were both too tired to do an emergency pod. So we said, you know what? Everybody else is going to have a pod about this. We'll wait until Monday and cover it as part of a bigger episode. The Orioles acquired Corbyn Burns from the Brewers for D.L. Hall, Joey Ortiz, and the 34th

overall pick in the 2024 first year player draft.

There is a ton to unpack here.

I would just like a moment to have the floor.

The thing that bothered me about it is not necessarily the return, right?

The return might be fine.

You can rationalize six years of D.L. Hall and six years of Joey Ortiz,

and we'll talk about the value they bring.

It's the misdirection, I'll call it, of adding Reese Hoskins,

which created this idea, for me at least, that they wanted to make one more run

in Milwaukee with the core they had, as opposed to trading Burns now, trading Willie Adamas now,

maybe trading Devin Williams now. Now all of that kind of feels back on the table, right?

Had they not signed Reese Hoskins, I don't think I would have the, the, the ugg reaction to this.

It's just realizing that the job is now more difficult for this team.

The questions about their pitching staff were there for this season, even with Burns as a

part of that rotation.

And now we've got even more questions.

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