Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Monday, June 12th.

Derek Van Riper, here with Eno Seris on this episode.

We dig into some power outages, some players who, as the first half, winds down,

are still not hitting for as much power as we expected.

A lot of reasons for that, but we'll try and untangle a few of the more common questions

we've been getting into mailbag.

A lot of mailbag questions on this mailbag Monday.

And we begin today with something from the college baseball playoffs.

Many people last night were watching the Stanford, Texas game because I think it was really the last baseball of the night.

That game was still running well after the time Southern Night Baseball between the Red Sox and Yankees wrapped up. And they were

concerned about the arm health of Stanford pitcher Quinn Matthews, who

finished a complete game with 156 pitches, which is a boatload.

And I understand that people are upset.

It's a lot of pitches for any pitcher, especially someone who's not getting paid a big league salary to throw baseball.

So, you know, what should we make of this?

Stanford got the win.

It was to keep their season alive.

I think the thing that was really troubling to me about it was just that they had a five-run lead in the ninth inning.

And there should have been one capable reliever who could have got those last three outs to take

a little bit of that wear and tear off of Quinn Matthews. But this is kind of the problem

in college baseball right now is

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