Welcome to Rates and barrels, everybody. I'm Al Melchior. I am here with Enos Seris,

and it being spring training and I suppose

I could just say it being baseball we do have a lot of injury news we'll be getting to that shortly

we're also going to take a look at some spring training stats and try to figure out what's maybe

relevant and what's not because it's spring training so we do have to be careful careful about these tests, but there's some interesting ones. So we're going to consider those in a little bit. So before we dig into all that, just a reminder that if you have not yet, subscribe to The Athletic. Now's a great time. You can get in the door at $2 a month. Just go to theathletic.com slash rates and barrels.

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And Eno, I know it's, you know, again, sort of a broken record.

I know we've done some previous episodes on spring training injury updates,

and this isn't going to be the last one either.

But let's start by talking about the big news from Wednesday night,

Edwin Diaz, in the World Baseball Championship game, Puerto Rico,

with the big win over the Dominican Republic. But Diaz in the post-game

celebration injured his knee and looks bad. I have not seen anything as of this time.

You can't put pressure on it. You can't walk off as bad. Yeah, exactly. So he is slated to get tests on Thursday, which is right now

when we're recording this. So I've not seen anything yet, but, you know, operating this,

you know, somewhat of an information void. You know what? You know, one thing, though,

there's been a lot of diaper filling about this and some like really prominent media people calling for the end of the WBC because of this.

And I think that would just be a real shame.

I mean, just watching these games, it's really interesting to me too because, you know, one personality made a reference to where their grandmothers got laid is that's the only reason why people are playing in these certain, for these certain teams.

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