Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, September 20th. Derek and Riper,

Inoceris here with you on this episode. Show Hey Otani has created the 50-50 Club.

We'll talk about that historical achievement, which came as part of an all-time

great performance at the plate on Thursday as well.

I love that he didn't just do it.

He just did it with that.

Yeah, it wasn't like a one for five where he got the 50th steel or something.

Of course, he did it in greatest showman fashion. So we'll look at some of the historical games that are comparable to what O'Han, Atani achieved on Thursday. Bo Bichette's season is over. We'll talk about what his future might look like. I liked Bo a lot going into the season. That was a bad call. We'll see how much of a discount we're going to get in 2025.

We'll keep an eye out for some Juan Soto news after he collided with an outfield wall.

We've got a second half strikeout minus walk percentage leaderboard that we're going to look at for some potential surprises, both good and bad.

And we'll have a weekend waiver preview for those who are still pushing through the final week of fantasy baseball season as the regular season comes to close next week Sunday.

So still a little bit out there if you're trying to just make those last couple of adjustments and finish the money or possibly bring home a title.

As always, if you'd like to join our Discord, you can do that with the link in the show description. Lots of good stuff happening in there. But, you know, let's start with Shohei Otani. He creates the 50-50 club, 50 homers, 50 steals. We've never seen that before. We'd never even seen 50 homers and 25 steals in a season before. That was where my brain went right away

when I started thinking about the stolen base environment and people that would be naysayers

just to be jerks. And I thought, okay, like, yeah, it's a little easier to steal a base now than it

has been at a lot of other points in big league history. Doesn't matter. This is still an

absurd achievement. Being a one-of-one in Major League Baseball history is always going to garner a lot of attention.

So I decided to make a stathead search for 50 Homer and 10 steel seasons,

which did actually spit out 16 seasons in baseball history at the very top from a power perspective.

You might recall the Barry Bond's 73 home run season in 2001.

He stole 13 bases that year.

So that's at the high end for power.

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