Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 10th. Derek Van Riper, I'm

here with you on this episode. We catch you up on some baseball news from the week. We have

Justin Verlander starting another chapter, perhaps the final chapter of his big league career

after signing in San Francisco. We had movement on the Gavin Lux front. We'll talk about his

fit after a trade to Cincinnati. Brent Rooker, friend of the program, got a contract extension with the A's, so congrats to

Brent.

We'll talk about the implications of that and his long-term outlook on the heels of a five-year

deal with the athletics.

Got a few other moves we'll get to, and a couple more mailbag questions, including one

that suggests that Blake Snell might be the best

picture of this decade so far. So tons of ground to cover on this Friday. And be sure to

join our Discord with the link in the show description if you've done that already. It's a great

place to hash out some of the arguments that arise over the course of our episodes.

Let's begin with the Giants, Edo.

This came up a little bit on our episode on Thursday with Trevor.

Justin Verlander, maybe having to make some more adjustments.

The late, late stage adjustments, has signed a one-year deal with the Giants.

From a fantasy perspective, it's one of the safer places he could have signed,

because you can pretty easily look at those home starts and say, hey, in deeper leagues,

I want that.

Part of the appeal here, too, is that Verlander's stuff still looked good in the model.

And as you started to outline on our Thursday episode, a few adjustments could actually go a long way.

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