Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Topps Checkout Topps Project, 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards.

Derek Van Riper, Bridgeroli, King of Waffles, Enosaris here with you on this Monday.

You're going to keep that nickname, I think, Enno, because Sam already wants to know,

how are the Waffles this morning?

Be sure to get both sides of this World Series matchup.

Yeah, anxiously awaiting your prediction of both teams finding a way to win this one.

But on this episode, we will dig into the conclusion of each LCS series.

Yeah, how did we get here in case you may have forgot what happened over the weekend?

Or maybe you were just busy doing other things.

We'll try and paint a picture. And then we'll talk about what might be next for Boston and for

the Dodgers, for that matter, since we've got really every day this week to talk about the series in

great detail. We'll save some of the game one series preview stuff for tomorrow's episode.

So I figured today we should begin on the NLCS side.

Things are a bit more fresh in everybody's mind from that series.

But Atlanta did it.

They found a way.

The Dodgers had to go to Walker Bueller on short rest.

And the question that we've been starting to ask more and more as teams are bringing

guys back in situations like this and using guys in their throw day is what are the lingering effects?

What happens to guys coming back like that?

I didn't see any velo issues with Walker Bueller, but I did see a big drop in spin rates on all of his pitches.

So I'm curious to know, Eno, was that something that you thought made him a little bit less

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