Welcome to Rates and Beryls. It's Thursday, March 14th, Derek Van Riper here with Idoceras on this episode. We have a big March trade. Dylan Sees on the move to San Diego. So we'll talk about the return that the White Sox got the implications of the Padres, adding Dylan Cease to that rotation. We got an update on Devin Williams, and it's not good.

We'll dig into that situation and the brewer's bullpen.

It will likely be a first half absence or something close to it for the brewer's closer.

And then we had a really insightful mailbag question about swing decisions in the shadow zone.

We're going to dig into that and a few other mailbag questions as well.

So lots to cover over the course of the next hour.

Couple reminders, the Discord is open and within the Discord.

We are now on to Listener League number three.

So be sure to click on that link if you have not signed up for our listener league.

It is a salary cap contest. There is no entry fee. It's a customized league made over at fan tracks. Really cool features being able to put that together. We're just making multiple leagues because it caps out at 200 entries. So we want to make sure that as many people who want to play can. The big thing here, prices are locked in already.

We're not changing prices for guys who are hurt.

And lock for the entire season is Tuesday night, the 19th, at 10 o'clock Eastern.

So got about five days, as I say this right now, to get those rosters in.

No in-season maintenance, which is really cool.

We'll see how everything plays out. And I think it's funny because I started to go through the mental process of, you know, how do I want to attack this? How do I want to play this? And I'm worried. Here's the thing I'm thinking about, which is the only a strategy thing we're going to talk about before the contest actually locks, because I think we want it to just happen.

I think we have a lot of like-minded people playing this game and attacking it the same way.

And I don't think attacking it the same way is going to be the most effective path to win.

Oh, but you just poisoned the well.

Now we're all going to be like, oh, I'm going to do the other idea.

And then we all switched to the other idea.

I just wanted to throw it out there because, I mean, so many of us like the same kinds of players.

You know, we have our biases towards certain things we've done.

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