Welcome to Rates and Burials. It is Thursday, September 1st, September call-ups edition of the podcast.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We'll discuss roster expansion.

There have been some very interesting prospects brought up as rosters are expanding today.

Might even get a few breaking news style promotions along the way.

It's everybody's favorite.

We got a few new-ish pictures that we're going to talk about, assessing their roles,

what they've shown in limited action so far.

It also occurred to me that we did not discuss the mega deal that Julio Rodriguez signed

with the Mariners late last week, so we'll get to that on this episode.

We get some mailbag questions as well and lots to cover.

So a good episode lined up here on this Thursday.

You know, the notable promotions, Gunner Henderson probably right up near the top of that list.

It's not just roster expansion. It's as we've talked about

before, it's the new rules for draft pick compensation going to teams for players winning

the rookie of the year award and getting past a service time threshold to no longer be eligible

for that award. And then on top of that, as Matt Eddie pointed out, Matt Eddie of Baseball America,

teams also need to make sure that players don't accrue too many at bats, or players

don't accrue too many at bats to become ineligible for the award as well.

So that might control the amount of exposure that Gunner Henderson and Corbyn Carroll receive against lefties,

which is really an extra wrinkle.

I guess when the case of Henderson, the Orioles are trying to get in the playoffs,

so they're playing matchups a little more closely anyway.

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