Welcome to Rates and Burrell's Friday, September 6th.

Derek Riper, I know Saris here with you on this episode.

We discuss at least one quiet hero of this 2024 fantasy baseball season so far.

Ronald Lopez had a great start against the Rockies. We'll dig into what he has accomplished this year and maybe try to figure out what is next for him as a starter as he continues down this path in his career.

We're going to talk about a mailbag question around end game lineup decisions

and dig into why some of that is so difficult because you're chasing multiple categories

and you've got different players on your team that might be stronger in that area or weaker in

that area, but they might be the better player with the better schedule. So we'll talk about how we

try and problem solve those situations.

We've got some other mailbag questions, including one, a follow-up to something he said last week, wondering why you prefer Jackson Job by as wide of a margin to Kumar Rocker, as he suggested.

Also going to get to our weekend waiver wire preview as well.

How's it going for you on this Friday, Eno?

I'm doing well. I'm going to the A's game tonight. Actually, it's really kind of melancholy in Oakland, of course. So I've spent a

lot of time sort of morosely looking onto the field being like, wow. Wednesday when I was there,

I was, I had this thought. It was like, it's kind of weird to be at a place that you've gone to repeatedly for 14

years and know you may never go back to that place.

Right, but that it may actually get just completely like bulldozed at some point too.

I was like, well, the ballers play here?

Like, I was like, would I come back for a ballers game?

Like I was just like, you know, like it's just, it's kind of weird.

It's like it has some things in common with like when you graduate to school and you're

like, am I going to be back?

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