Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's a live episode here, Monday, November 9th. Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, and

Britt Joroli with you. We're kind of flipping the schedule around talking about real

baseball because Eno had a story that went up. It was our featured story today at the

Athletic. Almost everyone is using something, getting a grip on how MLB pitchers are cheating. We figured this was a good

time to talk about it with Sy Young Awards going out later this week. So we're going to start there.

We'll talk about awards. We'll take questions no matter where you're watching us today. We'll get

some questions sprinkled in throughout the next 45 minutes or so as well. You know, let's just dive right into your story.

I think the thing that really kind of caught me off guard is that we've reached this point

where you have people now saying 99.9% of pitchers are now using something. It seemed like

something maybe half of pitchers or three quarters of pitchers might have been doing,

but we've reached the point where this is just a normal thing for pitchers to do to use foreign

substances to get a better grip, but also to increase spin and, you know, to get more late break.

Yeah, I mean, I just, I think that maybe like when you ask someone, you get, they get,

they give you an idea of like

what's happening around them.

So it's not, I, I couldn't do it in a way where I'm asking each one and like have great

data and can tell you a 76.8% are using.

So, you know, what happened is a lot of people said almost everybody and then other people

said almost everybody on other

teams. You know, so on our team, it's more like 50%, but almost everybody else over there. So I kind of,

it wasn't my best data moment, but it was, you know, I was like 75% is kind of where I'm landing,

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