Welcome to Rates and Barrels Friday, February 21st, Derek and Riper, Eno Seris, and a special guest joining us today.

Eric Langenhagen of Fangraphs is here.

Eric, thank you so much for joining us during Pros is here. Eric, thank you so much for joining us

during Prospect Week. Oh, thank you so much for having me. This is what my face looks like,

internet. Have you been hiding your face from the internet for this long? That's amazing.

It is. I have an appreciation for how accidentally famous people can get, like the poor hawk to a girl.

Just like, you just do not know what you're what you're dealing with.

It's not really in your control.

I think one of my more proud moments is I was speaking at Sabre and they had such trouble

finding a photo of my face that from like one of my friends weddings there

was a picture of me in the background and they like cut the person they accidentally put the

person who was in the foreground like as the headshot of me in the program and I was just

like okay like I am I'm doing a guy behind that guy so screen grabs from this show may be used as a

future Eric Long and Hagen and headshot yeah let me give awful announcing all the like terrible

ones that they could possibly use your eyes are like at half-mast we get at least at three

of those every single episode where we're both blinking, sneezing, coughing, something all at the same time that works out. I have to say that you've made the right decision about social media generally. Yep. Yeah. I was early on that one, which I guess is like the prospect writer's credo is to like do, but, but yeah,

that was that was more about me and how it was making me feel than like me reading the tea

leaves about how it was going to trend. But I haven't like done the blue, the blue ski,

the blue ski jump because I just think like kind of the same, right? Like, so no thanks. It doesn't make me feel as bad about my life and my other than the world, but yeah, it's an addiction, you know, and it's, it causes me not to be as present for my children and stuff. So it's like, generally I'd like to do less of it. I could definitely feel my, when I got off there. It wasn't like my brain was like, okay, we're going to just read now. That's all you're going to want to do is be. Yeah, what did you do? It was just like, you're going to be really good at fantasy football this year, Eric. And, you know, but yeah, like my brain is messed up too from it in a way that is, I don't know if it's totally irreversible, but it's definitely an upstream swim for my attention being directed with my control.

Yeah, I've experienced the same thing.

I don't have ADHD or anything like that, but I think I've developed some symptoms of it from a decade plus on social media. But our own struggles aside, let's talk

prospects for a bit, since it is Prospect Week. Tons of great content rolling out over at Fangrass.

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