Hello, everybody.

This is Al Malkyure here.

This is Rates and Barrels.

I'm here with Niosaris.

And we've had a few spring trading games in the books, you know. So good time is any to

review some of the early news out of the spring training site. So that's pretty much going to be

the theme here. It's all injuries. Isn't it always, though? Well, at this early, there's not too much to talk about in terms of performance, but that's not going to stop us either, right?

We'll look at us few early numbers.

But yeah, unfortunately, it's going to be a lot of injury news.

It's a drag, but, you know, we all, I think if we've been played for a while, we all know the drill at this point.

So speaking of which, the 2023 fantasy baseball

draft kit is available now on The Athletic to get you ready for those drafts that you still have

coming up. Just go to theathletic.com slash rates and barrels. And there you can sign up for a great deal,

$2 a month for the first year, and that gets you in the door

for the draft kit and, of course, for everything else. So, you know, let's dig right now. Right now,

I've got up those deep sleepers that we talked about, the deep pitching sleepers that we talked about

last week, finally got them on the site. And I realized, looking back, that in last year's deep

sleeper article, I recommended Spencer Strider. So obviously, in last year's Deep Sleeper article I recommended Spencer Strider.

So obviously in this year's article, I will also recommend someone who will break the rookie record for strikeout rate.

It's Matt.

That's a fair, you know, that's a fair promise.

So there's your value right there.

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