Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, December 6th, Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode.

We have a lot to talk about, even though the lockout rages on.

We're closing in on the first week of the great lockout of 2021.

But we are going to talk about a huge story that broke last week.

We teased this on the pod last Wednesday. Bradford

William Davis had a story at Business Insider about massive differences in the baseballs

used throughout the 2021 season. So we'll talk about the implications of that. I'm going to dig into

some related home run rate surprises and figure out what to do with those players going forward

Eno's got an ISO barrel rate concoction to pass along so we're going to look into that and try and

figure out if there's a hidden source of value there yeah that's kind of what I was trying to do

wanted to make it sound like either a sandwich or a nice adult beverage so feel like I

successfully did that.

And we've got a few more early draft observations as well.

Eno's been doing an auto new mock.

I had the XFL auction over the weekend, not the old football league run by Vince McMahon,

but a longstanding keeper league that was created by Ron Chandler about 20 or so years ago now.

So that actually happened on Saturday.

We'll talk about some stuff that came from that and the other early drafts that we've done as well.

But I think we do need to start with the baseball because Craig Calcuttaire, as he tweeted this morning,

pointed this out,

this is a bigger story than the amount of attention it's received so far.

And I think this is interesting because we've talked about the ball.

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