Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, March 4th. Derek Van Riper,

Eno Seris, Jet Lowry here with you, getting caught up on some news from around baseball.

We're going to talk about Hunter Green. He's getting his elbow checked out.

We have two steroid suspensions, one for jerks and pro far, who was suspended a year ago for a positive PED test,

and another for a Philly's depth outfielder, Johann Rojas.

Got some big picture questions coming out of the Sabre conference this weekend.

Eno saw a presentation focusing on max bat speed.

We'll talk about what that metric might tell us, how it might lead us in positive directions,

and how it could be a little bit misleading in some ways as well.

We're also going to attempt to make the best version of spring training that anyone

has ever seen, because I am of the opinion that if we were inventing Major League Baseball

today and setting everything up, spring training might look a little different than it actually

does. So we'll try to unpack that later on in the show as well. Jed, how you feeling on this Wednesday?

You sent us a heck of a group text from a recent trip.

I just got back from Bandin Dunes, which appears to be a more common theme as of late, which I am okay with that.

For anybody who hasn't been yet,'s a little slice of heaven um and only

you know four hours four hour drive for me um but yeah i i got uh i got a hole in one i actually

i'm wearing my shorty shirt today and i think this might be a good debate does does a hole in one

on a par three course count.

And,

and,

you know,

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