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Derek Van Riper back here alongside Enosaris.

A big thank you to Paul Sporer, Andrew Perpetua, and Vlad Sedler for covering over the course of the last three episodes.

Good to have great friends to talk to when one of us is gone.

I think that certainly eased the pain as we went through a week where I was on vacation

and a day for you where you were unavailable on Monday.

So welcome back.

Glad to got to be back doing the show in its usual form with you,

you know?

Oh, yeah. I went camping and

got sick. Old story. But also very happy to have you back. I'm very uncomfortable in that chair

you're sitting in right now. Yeah, lead host has to be on the left side of the video. If you're

watching us on YouTube, that's the rule. We did an opposite day episode a couple weeks ago where I was on the right, and it does

look weird when the videos start playing back to back. It's like, all of a sudden, I'm just shifted. And it's like, wait, what's happening? I don't know. Where am I? It's a bizarre world. Lots of great questions have been coming in in the mailbag in my never-ending pursuit of inbox zero.

I took the best of those questions, or at least in the mailbag in my never-ending pursuit of inbox

zero. I took the best of those questions, or at least some of the best of the more recent ones,

and cobbled together what I think is a pretty fun rundown for today. We're going to talk

about some things related to X stats, a few players who are overperforming and underperforming

and what you should do and how you should utilize the numbers in

these particular situations. We're also going to take a look at a few prospects. Drew Waters could be

coming up for Atlanta somewhat soon. Lots of issues in that Atlanta outfield. Jackson Coar debuted

earlier this week. I had a question about Logan Gilbert as a possible by low, so we'll dig into that. And another one that

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