Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, April 15th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enos Seris.

Shout out to the good people at Comcast for taking down Enos internet for all of Wednesday afternoon and evening.

But hey, they got it back up and we're here.

So bonus episode on Thursday, just a make-up for Wednesday.

And then, of course, we have our episode with Britt coming up on Friday. So lots of rates and barrels going into the weekend. On this

episode, we will discuss some pitchers who have shown new offerings early on this season and what we

make of their new arsenals. We'll talk about some velocity drops and how concerned we should be, depending on the

magnitude of those drops. Had a bunch of specific questions about pitchers that came in through

Twitter, so we'll answer questions about Ryan Yarbrough and Danny Duffy and Joey Lucasey.

And we'll take a look at plate discipline stabilization as it pertains to Jake Croninworth as a result of a question

that came in as well. So lots of questions to answer, lots of topics to get to. You know,

let's start with the new pitches. You've put together a pitch change report, which at least is

something that I can look at. I don't know if that's going to be public at any point, but it's interesting because... Tomorrow. Yeah, see, tomorrow, Friday. Everything's all coming

together. There's some pretty interesting movers on this list, some guys that are throwing a new

pitch and throwing a new pitch a lot, which to me is a signal of confidence in a new offering. If you

see a new pitch and it's being thrown 5% of the time in games,

that might not hang around.

That might not be a weapon all season long.

But if you see a pitch that's being thrown 15, 20, 25, 30% of the time,

that looks like a much more permanent sort of adjustment.

We should start with Lance McCullors, who has been

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