Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, August 1st, Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, here with you just about 30 hours before the trade deadline as we start recording on this Monday.

A few trades have already happened.

We'll discuss the deal that sent Luis Castillo to Seattle.

We got David Peralta going to the raise over the weekend.

And Eno's got new starting pitcher ranks.

We're going to dig into those as well as a few mailbag questions.

How's it going for you on this Monday, you know?

It's going good.

It's going good.

I'm excited for the mayhem, although I get this weird feeling.

It's not going to be as much mayhem as people want.

I think there will be plenty of mayhem. I think a lot of the deals last year came down in the last 36 hours. We just got a reliever on the move, Scott Fross, not the reliever I expected to see the Cubs trade going to the Yankees. And as we learned with Clay Holmes last year, when the Yankees seek out a reliever that you didn't expect in the trade for, there might have been a really good reason for it.

So we'll see.

We'll see what comes from Ephros joining that Yankees pen.

But the Luis Castillo trade, I think, is a great place to start.

Seattle didn't necessarily need to be players for Castillo, but it's certainly a smart move, given how young the rotation is.

I mean, Gilbert and Kirby alone, I think, raised some questions about how much they can work in September and into October without added rotation depth.

Now, they have what I would say is a playoff caliber rotation in one fell swoop.

And Luis Castillo isn't a rental.

So they'd have them for 2023 as well. It was a big haul going back to Cincinnati the other way.

Noel V. Marte, Edwin Arroyo, Levi Stout, and Andrew Moore, the latter two, both pitchers.

But the top two, Marte and Arroyo, are pretty clearly going to be impact players as they eventually reach the big league.

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