Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Tuesday, July 23rd.

Derek Riper, Rich Raleigh, two-player show today, Eno on vacation, still enjoying

all the great beers, and I assume probably meats of Seattle, mostly fish from what I hear,

but I think he's having a good time on a nice, nice vacation here, well-deserved.

Britt, how's it going for you on this Tuesday?

Going well, it'll be really exciting, as you know, over the next week to see what,

who changes hands. I think we're exactly a week from the trade deadline. So most moves now,

unfortunately, happen within that 24, 48 hour period right around the deadline. But there's

still plenty to discuss that we're going to get into because it's just a really interesting time of year for baseball. A time when baseball certainly takes center stage. Absolutely. Now, we've got to look back at a few of the recent deadlines. One thing we wanted to do, we were kind of planning this show yesterday, we said, let's look back at what the teams that appeared in the World Series, the last three seasons, what they did at the deadline.

Because there's a lot of different ways you can attack it. You don't have to make a splashy move. The things you do at the deadline help, but they don't always put you over the top. Sometimes they simply keep you afloat. So we're going to dig into that. We'll talk about the Hall of Fame class that was just inducted on Sunday in Cooperstown.

Britt had a great piece with Chad Jennings. It was an oral history of Adrian Beltra, a player that I think was maybe just a little early in terms of maximizing his attention. But I think it was right on time for him because he doesn't sound like a guy that necessarily craved the spotlight.

We'll also talk about what we're watching here in this week leading into the deadline.

There are some teams right in the thick of things where these next six or seven games, these next two, two and a half series are going to shape the final decisions that their front offices make at next Tuesday's deadline.

So plenty of ground to cover.

I thought about this too with Eno Gone on Monday, we got Victor Robles on the rundown.

On Tuesday, I was going to open the show by asking you if you watched this weekend's

World Series preview.

There was a two-game series that happened this weekend.

I think it's the World Series preview for 2024. Did you watch it? I'm trying to think of what I watched. I watched the Sunday night baseball game, and I'll think the Dodgers Red Sox are the World Series preview. That's not the one. I'm curious, having eliminated the Dodgers and the Orioles, who I think are two strong candidates, who you believe. Who did the Brewers play? We're going to have the All Central World Series this year.

It's going to be... the Orioles who I think are two strong candidates, who you believe, who did the Brewers play?

Oh, we're going to have the All Central World Series this year. It's going to drive all of

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