Welcome to rates and barrels.

It's Friday, June 27th, Eric and Riper, Enoceris, here with you.

On this episode, we get some baseball news you should know.

We have park factors that appear to be changing in Texas, and no one really seems to know why, which is pretty interesting because the pitching is popping.

The bats are not doing what is expected, and we don't know if there's going to be some sort of change mid-season that kind of twist that script and makes things even more difficult to predict, but it looks like a longer-term trend.

So we'll talk a bit about that.

Our senior hot dog correspondent, Niv Shaw, has returned from his travels.

And I got to say, if you do not currently subscribe to our YouTube channel

if you're just listening to this podcast audio only we love you it's probably time to

subscribe to the YouTube channel and check out our hot dogs of the world segment today

because I niv put it all on the line I think, to try something that I would not have ordered.

There were better options on the board.

And Niv went off the hide dive for us.

So we'll get to that in just a little while.

And as we do every Friday, we'll talk about some players you should be thinking about on the waiver wire this weekend.

So a jam-packed show, and then based on our conversation with Niv, probably a pretty

long episode based on where things are at right now.

So let's get into the news, you know, some injuries to start with.

Zach Netto, good news here.

He jammed his shoulder earlier this week on a stolen base attempt.

It was his right shoulder, the one he had surgery on during the offseason.

A follow-up MRI this week revealed no damage.

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