Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Monday, August 29th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. If you're watching us on YouTube, no, we did not plan on wearing the same color shirt or almost same color shirt today. That is just a random coincidence. Yeah, I got a little more, mine's a little more teal, I guess. I don't know. Just grab the long sleeve. I'm repping Pure Project here. Ah, very nice. I just have,

I think most of my shirts are beer shirts.

This just came from Costco because saving money, I guess, is important to me.

On this episode, we've got some news we're going to dig into.

We're going to look at some second half risers on the hitting side,

looking for players that are barreling the ball more often and making more hard contact. Of course, another Josh Hater meltdown over the weekend probably has some people looking for immediate help, looking for some saves of the saves, possible relievers that could help during the final month of the seasons. We'll probably dig into that on this episode as well. Let's start with the big news from the weekend. We got the word that Corbyn Carroll is coming up. He's going to make his debut for the Diamondbacks on Monday. There's power. There's speed. And as Keith Law pointed out on the Friday episode of the Athletic Baseball show, Carol has played in two very hitter-friendly

environments this season. I don't think that was at all a Corbyn Carroll's not good statement.

It was more of just a, hey, if you're setting expectations based on AA and AAA, consider

that Amarillo and Reno are among the most hitter-friendly environments in their respective

leagues. So just put that context onto what he has done so far. But there's power, there's speed, there appears to be a pretty good hit tool there, an ability to draw walks. I actually went out and picked up Corbyn Carroll in Tout Wars, a 15-te-te-te-league where I had plenty of fab left. Because you could. You didn't have to, because you don't have to wait.

Didn't have to wait. You have to wait until they play. Yeah, and it was tricky because there were a handful of teams that could have really pushed me on the bidding. And a couple of them were contending. So I ended up spending about 30% of a full budget on Carroll. but who else you're going to spend it on at this point?

I've just been fortunate not to have to spend all that much fab.

I'm fine with it.

He's in the lineup right away because he has to be. But in a 15 team league where he start five outfielders, he should play right away. Because even if it's just speed first and everything else later, this is a player that you want to take an immediate chance on if you're looking for a late boost.

Oh, man.

I mean, just good plate discipline.

You know, strikeout rates could go either way, but I see these 8% swinging strike rates and think that he will actually strike out, you know, sort of 24% to 25% of the time

and not see one of those jumps up to 30 plus that you sometimes

see with these guys. So I think there's contact, there's patience, there's power, there's

speed, there's defense. Even with adjusting for the park, you're talking about a guy who has put up,

he put up 167 WRC plus and

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