Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, April 7th, Derek Van Riper, Britt Jiroli, here with you on this fine mid-week day.

No, Enosaris again today. Eno on vacation all week. We're all gone in our own directions on

Friday and back on Monday. So a lot to get to, though, Brit. It's been a fun opening week. We're

almost a full week into it.

Second series are winding down.

Fernando Tatis Jr. suffered an injury since we last spoke.

We got an update on that.

There were actually two trades on Tuesday, which was bizarre, like actual big league contributors

getting moved.

That doesn't usually happen during the first week of the season.

Benches cleared again, and of course it was in America's division.

We'll talk about why that happened.

Unfortunately, James Paxton had another early exit in his first start in his return to the Mariners on Tuesday night.

And we had a great follow-up email from one of our listeners, OJ, about a closer who was a little change-up happy about 20 years ago. And I certainly forgot that this player was out there throwing change-ups like crazy. But how's it going for you on this Wednesday, Britt? It's going well, DVR. I know we were talking a little off air, but I love this time of year because, as you said, there's so much baseball going on. No one's been eliminated. It's a fun time to watch. It's a fun time to overreact because a good couple days and all of a sudden you're atop the leaderboards, a bad couple days, and all of a sudden you're the Atlanta Braves and everyone's acting like the sky is falling. So, you know, maybe if you're in Oakland, the sky is falling, but it's probably been falling for a while. So I just love this time of year. I have employed your strategy to watch multiple games, I meant to tell you. I've been testing that out. I do like it. It's better than the random flip. When one game's on a commercial, it seems like the other game is too. So shout out to DVR in helping me do my job, which is to watch more than just the Orioles and Nationals here in Maryland.

You're going to be so amazed that the quality of the baseball played in the other 28 major league cities.

You'd see those teams, of course, passing through and going on the road, but you'll find

that the quality of play somewhere is good every day in Major League Baseball, and that's

not necessarily true, especially in Baltimore, unfortunately, during the time that you cover

the Orioles. A few nice runs, but a lot of bad baseball on the ledger for you as well. But let's start with Fernando Tatez Jr.

Pretty scary injury because he suffered it Monday night swinging the bat, swung and missed on a pitch,

and immediately crumpled up on the ground, walked off the field, holding his left arm. At the time,

it immediately reminded me of injuries that Ricky Weeks once suffered for the Brewers.

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