Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Tuesday, November 4th as we record this Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

What are you drinking there?

A southern hemisphere from Alvarado Street.

Nice.

We are doing this after dark.

After dark. Yes, a very late, late podcast.

The focus today will be on free agent rankings, specifically the top of the board,

hitters and pitchers, looking basically at the top tens,

give or take, trying to discuss who is worth spending big on in this class. Plenty of good

players available. I think it's an average or better class of free agents. I have a hot take.

You have a hot take? I have a hot take. I think it's a bad

class. You think it's a bad class. And the way that I think it's a bad class is I think that there's going to be a lot of money spent and it's going to look like a good class, but I think there's going to be a lot of bad contracts in this one. Okay. So you expect a lot of disappointment because of years and dollars.

Maybe not disappointment in terms of

actual results, but

results relative to because of years and dollars. Maybe not disappointment in terms of actual results,

but results relative to cash outlay, you think,

is going to be a little underwhelming.

I don't know what it is, but I look around and I see flaws.

I just see flaws, and I see a general trend that I believe is true,

which is that I think that that pre-agency is getting worse,

just generally. That seems to be fair. I'm going to stand by my original statement. I think it's at

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