Welcome to Rates and Burials. It's Wednesday, June 21st. Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, here with you on this episode.

We discuss the long-term outlook for Vinnie Pasquintino, as we learned that he recently

had shoulder surgery, which ended his 2023 season.

We'll talk about a problem that I'm referring to as the Sandy Alcantra problem, which is really

just a group of pitchers whose results seem worse than they should be given what they bring to the table as pitchers. Sandy, of course, on the mound as we record this with another bumpy outing and a tough spot against the Blue Jays.

Got a few other pitchers that are in similar groups.

Yeah, it's not good.

And then we've got a question about pull percentages that I thought was kind of interesting

because we were talking about Nolan Gorman and a few other players that have this skill.

Isok Paredes, especially kind of does good things when he pulls it.

And then there's a lot of questions about what he does when he doesn't pull it.

So I figure we could dig into that question for a bit as well.

So we'll start with Vinnie Pasquitino.

The long-term outlook for him following surgery on his right shoulder, left-handed hitter,

right shoulder means lead shoulder.

He did some digging.

And apparently that is the more problematic of the two shoulders to recover from for a hitter, you know?

Well, and by digging, I just texted a majorly hitting coach.

You're not supposed to reveal how the softers made.

It took me a really long time to bang out that text and get a response.

But the guess was that the front shoulder would be a more difficult shoulder because of the front shoulder

maybe bearing a little bit more of the force of impact and then definitely follow through.

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