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Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris with you on this Friday, the second half of the season, getting underway later today.

It was supposed to start on Thursday.

We'll talk about why that didn't happen in just a few minutes.

We'll discuss a trade.

Jock Peterson is now in Atlanta.

There's a story that Ken Rosenthal wrote for The Athletic about the twins attempting to extend

Byron Buxton.

And should those efforts fail, they are strongly considering trading him.

So kind of at a crossroads with him in that organization right now.

And we'll talk about a few other All-Star Week related questions and

really interesting question about Tyler Malley as well. So tons to get to on this episode.

Let's start with that trade. Jock Peterson goes to Atlanta. It's an Atlanta team that I thought

might be stuck in cell mode last time we spoke just because of the injury

to Ronald Acuna Jr. prior to the All-Star break. Simple one-for-one trade. Bryce Ball goes to

the Cubs as part of the return. I think this is the beginning of the Cubs spinning off some players,

probably more trades to come from them in these next few weeks. Let's focus on Peterson for a moment.

The overall numbers this year are a tick below what we're accustomed to, but this looks

like a pretty low-risk sort of move for Atlanta to bolster the offense.

And if the next two weeks go really poorly, they have a guy that would probably be of interest

to some other contending clubs if they decide they fall too far out of the race in the NL East. Yeah, for some reason I don't buy

that aspect of it as much because we already saw the return for Jock Peterson and it wasn't

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