Welcome to rates and barrels.

It is Monday, August 18th.

Derek Benrym for Inoceros here with you on this episode.

We've got some baseball news you should know coming out of the weekend,

including a couple of prospect debuts, one big one in Baltimore, one pitching debut for the Mets over the weekend with the arrival of Samuel Bessio and Nolan McLean.

We have some injury news to get caught up on as well, several great mailbag questions, and we'll look at where the money went in our fantasy leagues.

Both of us had lighter weekends on the spending front as a result of life doing life things, but hey, our teams are still in pretty good shape for the most part, I think. If you're watching us on YouTube, hit the like button this video. If you're not watching us on YouTube, subscribe to the channel and be sure to join our Discord with the link in the show description. How was your weekend, you know? It was good. It was good. Got the kids back out on the field to get them ready for fall ball. I sat and watched baseball. That's a good weekend. I drank some beers, yeah. It's a great weekend. I played some golf. I don't get on the course much. I played a little golf, played okay on the back nine for me. I play like two or three times a year. So I'm never going to get really that good at it. So as long as I walk off the course feeling like I want to play again, I feel like I've done well. And I walked off the course feeling like I want to play again. So small way.

Nice.

Trying to keep it like under 120 or something.

It was a shamble.

So best T shot and then you play from the best T shot of the group.

So that helps quite a bit.

Oh.

Oh, that's cool.

That's like sort of cooperative play.

Yes.

Yeah.

Cooperative play where actually it's actually a format where I'm useful because the one thing I can do well is I can drive the ball pretty well. I have no short game. Minimal feel around the green. Yeah. All right. I'm trying. It's one of those games. I think if I get to the point where I can take my son someday, then it can be family time. But right now... Then you might actually get a little better at it. Then it's me, it's just me disappearing for an afternoon. It's like, well, that's not going to make me a very popular person around my house. So it's going to take a couple of years for that golf game to pick up. Why, I stopped home brewing. Yes, right?

Exactly.

Exactly.

On to some baseball news, you should know, though.

Zach Wheeler had surgery Monday to remove a blood clot near his right shoulder.

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