Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode 114. Derek Van Riper here with Inoceris. It is Tuesday, July 21st.

We are closing in on opening day, just two days until we have meaningful baseball games in North America at the big league level with teams not just playing against themselves.

We have some roster changes to discuss. We have new roles to talk about.

We have a few injuries to get to. And we're going to make some of our predictions for the

upcoming season on this episode. We're going to kind of split some of the predictions up between

today's episode. We'll have a few more on Thursday. Eno, how's it going for you on this Tuesday?

I watched a baseball game between two different teams yesterday.

I watched like two or three of them.

It's nice. That was step one, like starting to play other teams even though it doesn't

count. And step two is to actually have it count. So I feel like we've made a lot of progress

in the last couple of days. Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous about data this year.

I have now seen a 54-foot home run.

I believe somebody hit a 680-foot home run the other day, and Bryce Harper hit like a 4- foot home run the other day and Bryce Harper hit like a four foot home run.

So good luck to all of us data chasers.

Yeah, I'm sure they could fix that in the next 48 hours or so.

I'm sure that won't be a problem.

It'll be just about as easy as finding a stadium for the Toronto Blue Chase. Yeah, that's still a work in progress. It's actually related. You know, the reason, I mean, they're talking about them needing to be in a major league stadium, and a big part of it is lighting. And I'm not going to poo-poo that. That's definitely a big part of it because minor league parks are none of them are up to speed lighting wise and so you would see that on the

cast and they they want these to be look professional so for example basketball their court they just

unveiled it today and it has like 50 cameras and is like the most digital thing ever. And they're going to just, you know,

since they don't have fans, they're just going to really, you know, produce the crap out of

what they do have, you know. And I think baseball wants to do something similar, wants to have a good

production. And so they don't want to have bad lighting. So I think that's why probably Pittsburgh is the biggest solution that I believe in,

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