Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, January 20th, Derek Van Riper, Yenosares, Brick Jiroli here with you.

Lots to get to you today, even though we are still waiting further progress in the ongoing

negotiations between Major League Baseball and the Players Association.

Some changes at Camden Yards.

So we'll talk about how that might impact hitters and pitchers in that park moving forward.

Some big news that broke last week when we had our episode get scrapped for a week.

Rachel Belkevick named Loe manager.

That's the Tampa Bay Yankees affiliate, which is just an awesome step forward again in the game that hopefully

we see a lot more of that on the horizon.

We'll talk about the implications there.

And I got a few questions that we'll get to at some point.

But the main topic we're going to get to about 15 minutes or so, looking at teams that did

not make the playoffs in 2021 and making predictions for which of those teams will

actually make the playoffs in 2022. So lots to get to on this episode. On the Tuesday episode,

Britt, Eno expressed some optimism about the progress that could be made with both sides back at the table.

And I'm just curious to take your temperature on this matter.

Where do you feel like we're at in the wandering through the off-season desert as this lockout?

I don't think we've moved much.

I talked to a player who was very heavily involved yesterday for a little while, and it does seem

like they're preparing an offer.

It could be as early as Friday that the union sends back that offer.

You know, could leak into next week.

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