Welcome to rates and barrels.

It is Friday, February 6th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosarius on this episode.

We get caught up on the news.

A lot has happened over the course of this week.

We've been in our position preview series on this show.

It's been pitcher week, so we've had three full episodes so far dedicated to 2026 starting pitchers.

And still more to come on that early next week.

But in the time since we last spoke about the news,

Framber Valdez found a new home.

He has landed with the Tigers.

Terrick Scouble had a big win in arbitration, so we'll talk about that.

There's been a three-team trade.

Of course, the race got in on this deal,

but Brendan Donovan is now a member of the Seattle Mariners.

E. E. Haneo Suarez went back to Cincinnati.

So lots and lots of ground to cover. And later in the show today, we're going to dig into some behind-the-scenes stuff, how the sausage is made. We're going to talk to Jordan Rosenblum, the creator of the Oopsy Projection System, and Jeff Zimmerman, who we discuss frequently on this show. We're going to talk about how health grades are made, some of the things that he thinks are important in your fantasy baseball prep. Of course, Jeff wrote a book called The Process with Tanner Bell. Great book. Highly recommend that. He's had a lot of success playing in the NFBC, Tout Wars, Labor, all sorts of different leagues over the years. and you probably know him from the mining the news stories over at Fangraphs that he puts

together each and every week too.

Eno, how's it going for you on this Friday?

It's going well, except that I gotta take my little doggy to the vet.

He is itched himself to bleeding twice in the last two days.

So something's going on. And I've been trying to do it with diet and all this other stuff. And it's time to go. And he's not good with the vet. So it's not going to be fun. Well, I hope it goes well. And I hope it provides the needed relief for the little fella so that way you can get some good rest. So I everybody up all night. So I can sleep too, because he hitches at like 3 a.m. right in my ear. It's the worst. It's going to be a win for everybody, I think, once you get that one ironed out. Let's start with some of the Tigers news from Verbaldez gets a new deal. Three years, $115 million, opt out after year two.

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