Today on Rates and Barrels, we discuss a couple of closer meltdowns in non-save situations.

We break down three rookie starting pitchers, including one very pleasant surprise in Cleveland.

And we discuss what's next for Noel B. Marte after the Reds demoted him to AAA this week.

Let's go.

Thank you. Welcome to rates and barrels.

It is Thursday, April 16th.

Derek Ben Ryper, you know Sarah. Trevor, how's it going for you on this Thursday?

Great.

It's beautiful.

Sunny up here in the Northwest.

We needed it real bad.

So, yeah, a little bit of vitamin D for me this morning, which it's been rough. But we're feeling good. I don't envy your winters. Eno, how's your Thursday going so far? Pretty good. My eldest is 14 today. Milestones. nice. Sushi dinner.

That's right.

Your kids have pretty good taste and food.

I'm doing better than they are in Seattle today in terms of baseballery.

That was a bit of a mess last night.

Big old meltdown last night.

What went wrong?

Just an off day?

I saw some not sharp. The breaking ball wasn't breaking that well. He's a lot of arm side, which is something Munoz is going to deal with with the way he delivers and falls off and stuff. If his arm's low behind, he's going to throw up and in all the time. And then when he did make some good pitches that were swung at, he got crocheted. Like everything hit, put in play was just going where no one was. So, like, it's just one of those nightmares. And then you just hope that the next guy comes in can just shut it down and get you out of it. And that is not, not what happens. It's the it happening to you in real time is really hard. The hardest part is watching someone else then give up. You're like, oh, man, you've just given me one more. You can live with it. If it's your fault, the whole, like, if you can, and not that he's going to blame, you know, he put him in a really tough situation, but like when you can say from A to Z, It was me. At any point, I could have stopped it and I didn't. You can live with that. It's a little bit easier to live with than putting it on someone else, putting them in a position that they're not usually in than having them. Because now maybe that person loses confidence as well. So now two of you feel like crap instead of just one of you. Like, he's going to be fine. but like we've seen some blowups from some guys who were the best pitchers in the league last year already this year.

It's pretty, pretty weird. A lot of them have happened. You know, we had some early stuff with the pitch clock where people said, like, you know, the pitch clock doesn't allow you to walk around the mound and regather and, like, you know, get out of it. So, you know, I don't know that we saw a lot of evidence of this early on,

but there does seem get out of it. So, you know, I don't know that we saw a lot of evidence of this early on, but it does seem to be said when the blowups are bad, they're worse somehow. Like, you just can't, you can't get out of it. You can't breathe. You can't stop. And it's just like a runaway, like a slow motion disaster, you know? But, but you know the other thing i would just say is

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