Today on Rates and Barrels, we prepare for the return of Juan Soto on Wednesday and Zach Wheeler on Saturday.

We dig into several rookie hitters, including the Red Hot Sal Stewart,

and we try to figure out why Kyle Tucker has gotten off to such a slow start with the Dodgers. It's Wednesday, April 22nd, Derek Van Riper, you know Saris,

Jed Lowry here with you. Lots of news to cover today, guys. We've got some players coming back from injury.

We got some rehab assignments that haven't gone well. We have

an underperformer on a huge contract. The wagons are circling around Kyle Tucker. The haters feel

like they are right, even though it's only April 22nd. And of course, we'll dig into some rookie

hitters here in just a little bit as well. Jed, how's it going for you on this Wednesday?

Great. Just got back from Palo Alto, actually, you know, sorry, I didn't have time to come

say hello, but I was down there for, I was down there for not the best of reasons. My college coach,

Mark Mark was passed away recently recently and we had a big

celebration of life um and it was a fantastic turnout both former players and um friends and family

so it was a really really nice uh really nice service and uh you know it was good to honor the man

that uh helped mold me into who i am today cool. You had the opportunity to get down there and do that. I was going to say, if you had an extra 12 hours, a trip to Zarenes would have been pretty high on my list. That's my go-to spot when I get over close to Eno. But I don't know. You know, what's going on for you right now?

How's your Wednesday going so far? Good. It's been kind of rainy down here and kind of nasty,

but it's good running weather, so time to bust out the 10 miles today. Ooh, I got to catch

you up. It's about seven more than I ran yesterday, so I got some work to do.

The good news is, though, I'm standing today, boys. I can get some squats in, I can hit some high knees, like Russell Wilson style. That's still one of the most absurd recent sports stories I've heard is Russell Wilson on that flight to London. I think it was one of the Broncos. while his teammates were basically asleep on the plane,

is just banging out high knees in the aisle.

Like, just dude. to London. I think it was when he was to the Broncos. While his teammates were basically asleep on

the plane is just banging out high knees in the aisle. Like just dude, no, not the right

circumstances. It's like read the room, read the plane a little bit. But some good news as we

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