Welcome to Rates and Barrels playoff episode number 16.

We hope you enjoyed game 7 of the ALCS on Saturday night and game seven of the NLCS on Sunday night.

On this episode, Eno chats with Twins pitcher Jake Oterizzi to get his thoughts on a variety of things that we've seen in this postseason, including the unique challenges of pitching without off days built

into the schedule and what it's like as a starting pitcher being tasked with pitching in

a game on your throw day in between starts.

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And now it's time for Eno's interview with Jake Oterizzi.

And here I am with Twins pitcher Jake Oterizi.

I should say, are you a free agent, free agent pitcher?

Jake Oterizi?

I think as of uh midnight after the world

series yes i'm not quite still twins pitcher pending yeah pending um and and we just wanted to talk a

little bit about um you know the postseason in general are you enjoying this post season it's a little

bit different without the fans you know and not and and and not a bittersweet and being, you know, having been a part of it and not any longer? Yeah, it's, it is that way, but it's been nice. I think the format this year of games every day with the no off days in between, it's been really nice to watch because you have a game on every single night. And obviously before this

point, when it was only, you know, four teams left now, well, three. But, I mean, there was like four games on a day and it was just like from noon. It was almost like a football Sunday where it's from noon until, you know, eight, nine o'clock, ten o'clock a night. So it's been fun to watch from that standpoint.

And, you know,

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