Welcome to Rades and barrels.

It's Wednesday, August 6th.

Derek Ben Riper here.

Eno Seris is back.

Eno, good news.

I didn't quite burn the podcast to the ground while you were gone.

We got close. We had matches. We had a little bit of wind.

Had an under the radar reunion, almost turned into a brewer show.

Full chaos. We have a lot of brewers talk coming up later on in today's show because I sat down with Vinnie Rotino from Fandual Sports Network Wisconsin and Vinny's one of the TV analysts over there. He's got a scouting background played in the big leagues that, hey, let's talk to Vinny about how this Brewers team keeps doing what it's doing because everyone's paying attention to the Brewers now. So I actually felt like it was a really timely topic and the right guess.

So my conversation with Vinny comes up in just a little while.

A lot of stuff happened while you were gone, man.

Roman Anthony, fresh off the presses just agreed to an eight-year,

$130 million extension with the Red Sox,

that's according to Jeff Passon of ESPN.

Errant Judge is back from the IL.

We've got a slop index of sorts that you've created to dissect just how good or bad the Yankees defense really has been.

So we're going to try and poke around at that for a little bit. And we get some other news that you may have missed over the last couple of days as well because there's a lot happening around the league following the deadline. Oh, all the relievers that got traded at the trade deadline have been terrible. Just to fill you in. I'm writing a who's got the best bullpen piece right now. So that's good timing. Someone will blow up while I'm publishing it. Your card, yeah, the three best bullpins in the league air quotes card. It's been bad for just the better money on that card since we put that on the screen. So look out, everybody. Look out. Let's talk about Roman Anthony's start. Eight years, 130 million. Escalators could bring it up to 230 million, based on the reports we're seeing right now. There's a club option for the year 234. I promise that's a real year. I don't know if we'll get there, but 2034 is a year that is covered by a club option.

Projections are always a little wonky for a player with this little time in the

big leagues. And honestly, Eno, if Roman Anthony's not hitting 20 homers per year by year three in the

big leagues, I'd be very surprised. I'd even probably eat the hat on my head right now if it's still

available two years from now. Roman Anthony is hitting 283 with a 400 OBP, 428 slug in 46 big league games.

That is really good.

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