Welcome to Rates and Burials, episode 104. It is Tuesday, June 16th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode.

We move to the NL East as we continue to revisit players on each team that we might have previously overlooked or simply found some new interesting things to talk about in recent weeks.

Before we get there, unfortunately, you know, we have to start with some of the uncertainty about the 2020 MLB season.

On Monday, the commissioner's office told the Major League Baseball Players Association

that it will not move forward and set a schedule unless the union waives its right

to claim that management violated their

March agreement.

And Monday kind of turned into one of the darkest days I can recall on baseball Twitter.

People were kind of expecting that Rob Manfred would come out and announce something

in the neighborhood of a 50-game season after the players rejected a proposal over the weekend

and concluded their statement that accompanied the rejection with, it's time to get back to work,

tell us when and where. Instead, Manfred came out and said that he couldn't tell us that there

would 100% be a 2020 season just five days after saying basically the exact opposite thing during MLB draft week.

So here we are. Things seem terrible.

And yet with fresh eyes today, I don't think they're quite as bad as we all thought yesterday.

Even though things are bad,

we're not really actually at zero season just yet.

No, no, I know I was going to get my fart gun out,

but, you know, it's one of those things.

It's always there when you don't out but uh you know it's one of those things it's always there when

you don't want it when you need it um you know the uh the thing with where we stand now um

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