Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, April 3rd. Derek Van Riper, Trevor May, and maybe Enosaris just fell off frame if you're watching us on YouTube. There he is. Oh, you got a ball. Very nice. Fall ball? No, for grips. Oh, yeah, that's super helpful. Good idea. Good prop to have handy. Lots of ground to cover on this episode. Plenty of extensions to talk about. We talked about Jackson Merrill yesterday, but Garrett Crochet recently extended.

Christian Campbell, as we were signing off yesterday, got an extension with the Red Sox. Catelle Marte gets it on the party, extends an already multi-year deal further into the future. We'll talk about that. We got jerks and pro far suspended for a positive PED test this week. Astridi Ruiz getting a fresh start. Eno wrote about the kick change for the athletic.

We'll dig into that.

We're going to take a look at how Trevor and pitchers might actually use some of the new information from Statcast against hitters. So we'll talk about that as well. So a lot of places to go. Plus, arm angle changes from the first time through the rotation for most teams.

We'll talk about what that could mean for pitchers who have moved in various directions.

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All right, guys, let's begin. Garrett Crochet, recently extended by the Red Sox, six years, $170 million. Trevor, if I told you this time last year that any team was going to give Garrett Crochet a six-year $170 million deal.

Would you have believed that was even possible?

I would have definitely believed that it was possible if it were two or three years in the future and he had thrown two more full years of innings.

I believe he's maxed out last year at 146. He also has no minor league

innings. So it's like there's just not a lot of body of work there with some injuries

involved. So it is kind of a big risk, but I will say in terms of performance, if you are

counting on him being healthy and you're confident that he can stay healthy,

that he's figured something big out, the pitching itself, he's definitely clicked.

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