Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Tuesday, August 19th.

Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you on this episode.

We have some baseball news you should know, including Kyle Tucker, getting multiple days off amidst a recent slump.

We'll dig into what's been happening to him, really for the better part of two plus months now at the plate.

I'm going to do a deep dive into the Mets with Tim Britton.

Tim will join us here in about 30 minutes or so.

We've got a few other things that you may have missed if you've been watching the baseball

and not consuming every corner of every player news update.

So we're going to get you caught up on a few interesting secondary news items,

including the upcoming arrival of a new Lodem King, Parker Messick.

Yes, Parker Messick is on his way to Cleveland, so we have a lot of ground to cover.

Eno, I feel like this is the way the show starts every single day right now.

We have injuries.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was sent for an MRI on Monday night at the time of this record,

and we are still awaiting the result of those

MRIs of that MRI, and he's got a left hamstring tightness diagnosis so far. So in the

day-to-day category for the time being, I had not looked up where Vlad Jr. was in the

Play-Rater, though, until seeing this update. And sure enough, number 13 hitter in the Play-Rater,

again, just doing it his way, right?

It doesn't have the optimal attack angle, doesn't do things exactly the way that we would like him to,

but ultimately just does it year after year after year.

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