Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We're digging into April Fallers, both on the hitter and the pitcher side. Lots of players to get to over the course of the show. We're going to take a look at the possible replacements for Dustin May in the Dodgers

rotation. We had a mailbag question

come in about Ryan McMahon's fast start

whether or not he has made some adjustments for

the long term better.

And we've got a great question about

what to do with your balance of starters

and relievers. If you're

closer heavy early, how long should you

go closer heavy in that lineup before you have to flip and go more starter heavy to balance out your stats in a rotisserie league?

You know, how's it going for you on this Monday?

It's going well.

It's going well.

I went to an actual party this weekend.

And it was so much that I didn't do anything on Sunday.

I just said, lay around.

I guess that was a hangover.

I hadn't had one in a long time.

But yeah, we had this, we had this thing where we rented a bus and drove around the Bay Area to Treasure Island and to the beach and just had music on the bus and drinks on the bus.

And everybody was vaccinated or had a negative test to get on the bus.

So once that part was done with, it was almost like old times.

It was fun.

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