Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, April 9th, Derek and Rymer, I know Sarah,

is Jed Lowry here with you on this episode. We get you caught up on a lot of injuries around baseball.

A trio for the Padres. We'll talk about their depth and the implications of some of those

injuries, some longer-term ones for Ronaldo Lopez and Victor Robles. I also saw something

that happened on Friday night that we're going to dig into with Jed. We know Jose Ramirez

is an elite hitter. Future Hall of Famer, most likely.

Is he out there playing 4D chess? We're going to dig into why that came up in just a little while.

We had some questions from our Discord as well, including one about why teams are so patient with switch hitters struggling from one side of the plate, so we'll dig into that,

and some unusual park factors as well.

Gentlemen, let's get to it because this is a big rundown.

I feel like we talked about Jackson Merrill to start last week's show because of his extension.

He leads off again this week because he was placed on the IL with a right hamstring strain,

not a major injury, but just the kind of thing that piles up on a team like the Padres

is because I think of all the things you worry about for the way this roster is constructed,

Eno, is it's very top heavy.

If the Padres are going to win the NL West or be a playoff team and be a

dangerous team in October, part of it is having at least an average, if not an above

average health outcome for the key guys in that lineup, like Machado, like Merrill,

and like Fernando Tatis Jr., who we'll talk about here in just a moment.

Yeah, I mean, just to grab that string that you left hanging there at the end, I mean,

Fernando Tatis took a swing and felt something in his surgically repaired shoulder that he had

labrum surgery on in 2022. Jake Cronworth got hit in the ribs and felt something tug or cramp in the same place.

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