Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, April 14th. Derek Van Riper here with

Enosaris on this episode.

Lots of pitching talk.

We got some questions about what to do early in the season with underperforming players,

when to make those decisions to move on.

I think that's a very difficult question to answer, but an important one,

because if you're going to take a chance on someone who's playing well

or playing more than you expected, someone has to come off the roster, and it's not always an easy, this guy's on the aisle so we can make a move.

We're going to talk about Clayton Kershaw looking really good in his first start of the season.

We'll look into what Miami might have changed with Jesus Lazzardo, who pitched exceptionally well against

the Angels earlier this week. There is obligatory Matt Brash talk on the rundown because

people want to know what's going on with Matt Brash. And I think we got a couple other

questions. What about Nick Martinez that we'll try to get to today as well? So lots to cover,

Eno. Let's start with Clayton Kershaw in a brush with perfection.

Dave Roberts did it again, pulling a starter in a perfect game. But I think he was right, especially

in this case, given what Kershaw was dealing with at the end of last season, right? I mean, we

talked about him throughout draft season as someone that had significantly elevated injury risk. And if your goal as a team is

to keep him healthy and to win as many games as possible and to possibly have him good to go in

October, not pushing him for a perfect game in a game that you had a probably 99.8% win

probability for at the time that he exited is actually the right call yeah you

know uh i think so and i think there was one thing that people are not talking about as much is just

you know the way kershaw seemed about it right like i think it's a little different if he's you know

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