Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Thursday, January 15th.

Derek Van Riper, Ido Seris, Trevor May here with you on this episode.

We got one big signing.

Ranger Suarez heads to Boston, a couple of big trades, both Ryan Weathers and Nolan Aronado on the move.

Get some mailbag questions and some changes to the ballpark in KC.

We'll dig into that in just a couple of minutes.

Trevor, how's it going for you today?

It's going great.

Good to be back.

I'm excited to finally talk with some other people about baseball. I'm doing a lot talking about myself. So it's good to be back. How are you guys doing? It's good. This is the killing season for us and with all the position previews we've done. This is like where we get the most of our research for our fantasy season done just by preparing for these episodes. So it's nice to take a little break and get into the news and get into kind of the other side of baseball for a second. Yeah, catching up on a few things that have happened in the last couple of days. For those who are new to the show, position previews will resume on Friday. We'll do at least three of those every week through the first week of February. That's when pitcher week falls, but we'll keep up on things happening around the league on the other days. So if you go a couple of days without hearing some analysis on a big move that happens, that's the reason why it's just part of the schedule this time a year. But we got shows, full episodes, five days a week, now until the end of the

world series.

So we are in it for the long haul.

Let's go to the news.

Let's start with Ranger Suarez.

Five years, $130 million from the Red Sox, a quick pivot from the previous, I guess,

attempts to reunite with Alex Bregman.

I think Rangers is interesting because he's just not like most pitchers that get paid like this.

It's not premium velocity.

It is a deep arsenal.

It is good command.

I'm fascinated to see how it ages, but I do love the short-term fit right off the top because now it's a crochet,

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