Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, November 13th, 2020. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. On this episode,

the Marlins have made a groundbreaking hire. Kim Eng has been hired to be their next GM. We'll talk about that.

And then a whole host of fantasy topics, a lot of great questions that have come in, looking at self-evaluation.

What do you do coming out of a fantasy season that

kind of helps you going forward? We'll talk about some real life versus some fantasy value-related

problems that come up with five-by-five and some possible changes. There have been some

recent pleas in my emails to lead a push to remove stolen bases from our game.

So we'll dig into that a little bit as well.

And we'll talk about ways we can search for meeting in decisions that teams make with things like their batting order, the order in which they use relievers, the order in which they line up starters to begin the season.

So whole different mess of topics

over the course of the next hour or so. But, you know, Kim Ng is finally a GM. And I say that because

I kid you not, for at least the last 10 years, any offseason where we had GM openings,

she would be one of those candidates who was considered

a favorite. And yet every time someone else would get hired. And the Marlins, they went ahead,

they made the move. And I'm so happy to see this because it's groundbreaking in men's sports

in North America. This goes beyond baseball, too,

to have a woman in the GM chair for any men's sports team. It blows my mind. It took this

long to happen, but Kim Eng is extremely deserving, and I'm just so happy to see it. Yeah, I mean, baseball is a sport where

almost no GM played the sport at a high level. And then baseball is an interesting

the situation where, you know, you can't even use that as a barrier really because

there isn't really like woman baseball, you what I mean they don't they're all

pushed towards softball so Kiming was a softball star you know how much how relevant is that I don't know

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