Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 52.

It is Tuesday, November 5th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

On this episode, we will fire up the hot stove.

It is our breakdown of the free agent landscape with a few predictions of where some of the top players will go.

We'll also discuss the early stages of a mock draft that Eno and I are part of,

along with our friends over at the pitcher list.

We are very inconveniently sitting next to each other in the middle of the draft order.

So that will be frustrating, I think, over the course of the next few days while that plays out.

And of course... I'd rather have your team, so... The early returns are that I'm beating Eno in this mock, apparently.

We'll also have our prospect of the week and beer of the week selections as well.

So why do you hate your team so much, Eno?

Well, I got...

I just felt like I got cornered into taking Chris Sale and I have no idea how to feel about it because I took Chris Sale in the second half of the sort of midway through the second round and he was the last pitcher in my projection set that was projected to be more than $50.

This is a shallow draft, so there's not, there are $50 pitchers,

and then there were $30 pictures after that.

So it went from sale at $50 to Beaver and I believe maybe Snell at $30 after that.

And so I thought that $20 difference, even though Sale never got the velocity all the way back and now has had troubles pitching past August in two straight years, I went for it.

If you're new to this podcast, the good news is Eno didn't have to eat a hat as a result of Chris Sails velocity fluctuations.

He was close, though.

And the bad news, other than for people who wanted me to eat a hat, is that he's still at 937 lost nearly two ticks.

I mean, it was like a tick and a half and not in a great way either,

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