Today on Rates and Barrels, we discussed the impact of injuries on the Jay's slow start at the plate.

And what are the big fixes that the pirates and cardinals could do in order to make good on their hot starts?

Plus, we say some nice things about the White Sox as they continue their rebuild.

Let's go.

Yeah. Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, May 12th. Derek Van Riper, you know Sarah, it's Bridgeroli here with you, discussing some of the teams that have maybe fallen by the wayside on this show over the first six weeks or so of the season.

It's not because we don't care about them.

It's because other teams were doing things that happen to be a little bit more important on any given day.

It's the perfect storm, right, you know?

I guess so.

We got, we threw it in the algorithm.

We, uh, we checked our math three times. And, uh, we think these are the algorithm. We checked our math three times. And we think these are the teams. Of course, we'll talk about them and somebody will say, but no, you haven't talked about these teams. So I'm sure we've missed them. We try to talk about everybody. And today we are going to write some wrongs. Yeah, we to try to do that britt how's it going for you on this tuesday can't complain guys it's a another nice day here in the maryland area and um oh was that the yankees orioes game last night um yeah can not uh can't complain should be an interesting series if the a Orioles play like they did last night. But we'll see. These guys falling in Yankee land. I know we're not talking about the Yankees, but they've lost four in a row. So Yankees fans are panicked. Yeah. Yeah. They have no ground to stand on right now. The other way to think about that is just to flip it, you know, just be like, well, the brewer's one three in a row.

Like just, you know, just be like, well, the Brewers won three in a row, like just, you know. That's on TVR. Yes, exactly. That's what I saw. And the Discord, I think, Gabe, one of the clear Yankees fans in our Discord actually had a barrel man with a broom swatting the Yankees logo, which I said in the extremely unlikely event that the brewers were to ever do that to the Yankees in a world series, I would get that exact

image tattooed on me. I would actually do it. I don't expect it to happen, but it's out there.

It's, you know, it's your 10,000 to one odds like,

hey, everyone's free rolling on this. DVR gets a barrel man swatting a Yankee logo tattoo if it ever

does happen, which I'll be so over the moon happy about it. Just imagining your wife when you came

home from the tattoo parlor. I already told her, I'm like, just so you know.

And then she kind of gave me the, the old, like, you know, there are tattoo people and non-tattoo people and they're all wonderful, but you're just a non-tattoo person. Yeah, I know. I know where I stand. Like, I've just, you know, it's not going to look cool on me, but like, it's just, it is what it is. But on to the baseball.

Let's start with the Blue Jays.

Everybody. on me, but it's just, it is what it is. But on to the baseball.

Let's start with the Blue Jays.

Everybody in the AL right now is within four games of the final wild card.

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