Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, June 14th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enoceris, color coordinated, supporting the brewers without even planning to support the brewers today. So I feel... It's probably Oakland. It's cut off. It's cut off the chest, so it just looks like we're wearing a brewster stuff. Gotta be. Why wouldn't it be? It'd be weird if it wasn't. Didn't they have like bad loss last night?

Thanks.

Thanks for bringing that up.

I'd just forgotten about that. Then I was excited about their early lead today. Then I just saw a tweet before we started recording. They're down four to two again. Oh, no. Doesn't matter, dude. They're going to win 83 games. They're going to go to the playoffs and they're going to win the World Series.

So you know what?

Nothing that happens between now and that final day when I drink all of the beers, eat all the donuts and go running laps around the house when it's probably going to be 43 degrees in sleeting. I won't even care. I'll be so happy. When is that going to happen? Hey, I do have some fun news. Luis Matos got his first major league hit and his first major league at bat after, I think we were mostly correct just to give us, I'm going to give us the benefit of the doubt and say we thought he'd be up soon. Then we kind of talked ourselves out of it and said maybe in the next three or four weeks and it ended up being the next day. I would say unforeseen circumstances in both Mitch

Hanager and J.D. Davis hurting themselves on the same day. J.D. Davis tweaking his ankle and

Mitch Hanager broken forearm. That's just, yeah, I feel so badly for him.

I mean, how many injuries, dude?

He has the combo of, you know, whatever you want to define as injury prone.

Like, I think you can fairly say he has that, but he has the bad luck on top of it.

Like, he has some pretty significant bad injuries that will almost certainly lead to more

injuries, right? But then stuff like this on top of that, it's horrible, horrible injury luck.

It sounds like he may need surgery at the last glance, a second opinion forthcoming on that.

Could be a 60-day IL situation. So this could be a long run for Luis Matos. This is not the way we wanted to see it.

But I think it does give us a long opportunity to see some of the things we're wondering about.

The big question you had yesterday was power. We'll get to see that. We'll get some batted ball quality numbers very quickly.

And I think that'll give us a good sense of where the floor is right now and maybe help us project ceiling a little better in that particular category, but I would think he's up to play and contribute for all the reasons that we discussed yesterday.

And the contact, the sub 10% K rates at double in AAA this year for a 21 year old for a guy who can do some damage.

Really exciting players.

Just a sad way that he came up.

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