Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Monday, March 14th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris.

Baseball is back. Since the last time we spoke, we actually have Major League Baseball back. There's a new CBA in place. Free

agency started again over the weekend. Trades have happened. Injury information has been

revealed. We're getting three and a half months worth of news condensed into about three and a half

days.

So we're going to try and get caught up on this pod.

And I think we've certainly got our hands full as far as getting through the entire

rundown.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was funny too because when it, when it first went down, everyone's like, okay, now here

come all the signings and nothing happened the first day. And everyone was like, okay, now here come all the signings and nothing

happened the first day. And we're like, hmm. I, you know, and I made a joke on Twitter that

was like, you know, nobody wants to go first and, and, uh, admit they were talking during the

lockout when they weren't supposed to be. But I think it actually took so long that I think it's probably a little bit more likely

that every front office was tasked with reading the CBA, the new CBA, and coming up with

ideas of how their strategy might change.

So I had looked at something like the option rule where now you can only option a player

five times.

You know, there were just, there were a few players that really broke it, like Maza with the, with the raise, was optioned ten times last year.

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