Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, December 7th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

Day one of the winter meetings, at least it technically is on the calendar, even though

the winter meetings are happening virtually this year.

I can't wait to have virtual beers.

Don't even seem like they're happening this year.

Even the manager sessions are pushed back a week week and the activity has been pretty limited,

although we were getting ready to do the show a couple hours ago, and we were both

sort of lamenting the lack of news in the last couple of days.

And we did get a trade, but surprising trade, too.

So we'll talk about what happened. It was a Reds Angels deal that sent

Ryssel Iglesias to Anaheim. And we've got some long-term questions that people have been

wondering about. We're going to look at some characteristics of young players that we think age

well over time. We've got a question in the mailbag about Dustin May that we'll get to.

So we'll break it all down and you know what? Hopefully more news will happen over the course

of this hour or so. But even if it doesn't, we got something. We got one. We got one deal

on day one of the winter meetings. As I mentioned, Risel Elyssel Ecclesias, now an angel.

It's interesting because the Reds,

non-tendered Archie Bradley,

so they have lost two key pieces from the bullpen

from the end of last season.

They've shaved some payroll in the process.

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