Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, April 29th, Derek and Ryper,

Eno Saris, back here with you.

On this episode, we've got some news you should know.

We got a promotion in Houston that might be of interest to a lot of folks.

Got a recall of a prospect on the north side of Chicago that we'll talk about later on in the show.

We got some injury follow-ups.

We've got hitters moving up and down. A couple of high-end hitters that people are excited about and worried about that we're going to talk about on this episode. We've got a mailbag question we're going to dig into and then we're going to take a look at where the money went this weekend, who were the big pickups, and who were the big drops? I think we're going to spend a little more time going forward discussing the players that were dropped because there can be hidden treasure that pops up on the waiver wire or guys that

maybe need to come off of your own rosters. So a lot of ground to cover on this episode.

You know, how's it going for you on this Monday? It's good. We're like right into the little

league playoffs. So we've been having a bunch of 8.15 in the morning games.

It followed up by like 6.30 at night games from the older kid.

So it's kind of hard to like do anything but baseball.

Yesterday I just woke up, did baseball, watched baseball at home in between,

and then went and did more Little League baseball.

So, yay.

Oh, and then Sunday I woke up and threw batting practice for an hour and a half.

How's your arm?

Good?

It's good.

I did short box, so I didn't have to throw as hard.

But the kids are getting bigger.

And some of the balls balls I, you know,

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