Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Tuesday, January 21st.

Derek Van Riper, Yenosares, here with you with a news-driven episode. We got some breaking news on the free agent front.

We know where Roki Sasaki is going to begin his big league career.

I think we had some creeping suspicions all along that he was going to join the Dodgers.

That became official, but the Dodgers did a few other things bolstering their bullpen.

Anthony Santander has a new home.

We have a high school player making the leap from Japan signing a deal with the A's.

We'll talk about that a little bit later in the show.

Baseball prospectus has some new arsenal metrics out.

So we're taking a little detour from the position preview series for today.

We get back at that tomorrow on Wednesday,

three outfield preview episodes coming up this week. So a ton of ground to cover,

Eno, briefly. How was your weekend? It was good. We went to Fisherman's Wharf, which is like

really a touristy thing, but there aren't that many that many weren't that many people there it was a

beautiful day and uh also had to go all the way to sacramento for science Olympiad so now i'm

traveling officially for my son for for science things and he he had to i did a little scoring too

so i was a volunteer judge for the rube goldberg

machines and uh it was fun but it was also stressful because these kids like you know i'm telling

them that they're score and like you know like they're then some of them just like weren't good

and i ended up doing like a little bit of coaching being like so this is why you know here this is why it didn't score and like if you like keep doing this

you want to do this you want to do this this is a big score that you didn't do you should do that

next time you know what I mean like ended up being a kind of a coach in the end but just a

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