Welcome to Rates and barrels, episode number 66. It is February 4th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. On this episode,

we kick off Pitcher Week. The Athletics Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit launched on Monday, and within

that release, Eno shared his updated top 175 pitchers. So we'll talk about how those rankings

diverge from mine. We'll talk about the pitching pool as a whole.

And that's going to be the main emphasis of this episode.

All things starting pitching.

On our next episode this week, we'll close things out with an emphasis on relievers.

Some housekeeping to get to before we get started.

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You can get 40% off a subscription at theathletic.com slash rates and barrels. Everything we do, including that draft kit, is included with a subscription. Eno, pitcher week is like one of the best weeks of the year, even though it's a thing that I just

made up in the last couple of days. It's like shark week, but for pitching. Yes, yes, pitcher

Paloza, whatever you want to call it. It is a fun time because, you know, also one of the things

that's great about it is the pitchers aren't pitching right now. So at the very least, there's no, like, large piece of information that's going to come tonight when a pitcher starts.

You know, like, I don't have to change everything because somebody blew out their elbow last night.

But at the same time, because we don't have that and because it's static, you know, we do have the chance to argue. And one of the

things, I do think I'm going to update these before the season starts because of conversations

like we're about to have, where people bring up different aspects of a player. Or they

highlight differences.

There was some consternation that Zach Eflin was behind Nick Povetta, for example.

And just a discussion of why that would be the case when Eflin's probably the guy who has a job,

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