Today on Rates and Barrels, we're discussing tough pitcher rankings with Paul Spore, a little

out-of-the-park baseball, and a few of our favorite weekend waiver targets.

Here we go.

Welcome back to Rates and Barrels.

We'll dig into some tough pitcher ranks in just a few minutes.

Some huge show news, though, first.

Darkville is back.

Jason and Doug return and sit down with Yankees manager Aaron Boone on Saturday.

Listen to how Boone described the work that went into the Yankees' aggressive ABS strategy.

We're trying to learn just like everyone else.

You know, I'm sure a lot of other teams poured a lot into it this winter and just kind of

trying to be up to speed on it.

What did the, what did the prior year in AAA teach us at all?

What can we take from that?

So, you know, we spent a lot of time on that this winter having, you know, meetings and Zoom calls and things like that. So, you know, we spent a lot of time on that this winter having, you know, meetings and

Zoom calls and things like that. I got on with our coaches probably, you know, three times this

winter with front office people that are kind of studying this stuff. So, you know, and I think just

generally speaking, we want to be, we tend to be more aggressive with it.

Check out that full interview on Starkville on Saturday, now available every Saturday, wherever you watch or listen to Rates and Barrels.

All right, Paul Spore of The Sleeper and the Bust, fan graphs, and I think I don't appreciate this enough about you.

O-O-O-T-P, out-of-the-park baseball ambassador and content creator for perfect team.

Tell me a little bit more about perfect team and what that entails.

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