Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, May 3rd. Derek Fenryfer here with

Enosarius on this episode. We take a look at some risers and fallers from the first month of the season among hitters. We had an outstanding matchup of rookie pitchers take place in Oakland on Wednesday night. We have a new closer in Texas. We got a couple mailbag questions we're going to try to get to as well. Eno, let's start with Mason Miller versus Bryce Miller.

That was actually Bryce Miller's big league debut.

We didn't actually talk about him on Project Prospect on Tuesday.

I think we talked about him last week on the 3-0 show as someone who might come up as a result of the season-ending injury for Robbie Ray.

And by every account, Bryce Miller looked like he was ready to contribute to the

Mariners rotation. Yes. And I think, you know, he was so impressive and the stuff

numbers are so impressive. I mean, immediately up into past Mason Miller territory, of course,

there is usually a debut bump. We see it in Velo,

we see it in Stuff Plus. You know, we've seen a lot of guys, even Shane McClanahan debut at,

you know, 125, 130 Stuff Plus, and then settle in at, you know, high one teens or something.

Usually though, once a guy debuts at a 132 stuff plus,

you can say he has great stuff.

And you can even say with Mason Mill, you saw he debuted at 130 plus,

and now he's settling more into the low 120s.

So you saw that kind of debut adrenaline bump with Mason Miller and then a little step back from it,

but still excellent results, excellent strikeout rate, excellent stuff.

Some questioned as to how far into games he will go and how many wins he will get because the Oakland A still

don't have a win from their starter and are extending that major league record.

Bryce Miller doesn't have that problem. He has a great, a great bullpen behind him. I think he has

as much runway as he can pitch his way into.

And the big question just becomes, why weren't his minor league numbers better if he had all this

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