Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Monday, July 31st, Derek Van Riper here with

Enosaris on this episode. We recap a busy weekend in trades. I think it was after we signed up on Friday that the Dodgers added a starting pitcher with Lance Lynn. A lot more happened in the days since then, so we'll break it all down from a fantasy perspective. We've got a few mailbag questions to squeeze in at the end of the episode as well.

But, you know, let's just go for it right off the jump. Max Scherzer is now a member of the

Texas Rangers. And because the Mets are the Mets under Steve Cohen, it was an unusual deal

in that they're eating a lot of money, which will actually save the money, as Ken Rosenthal

wrote about for the athletic. Luis Anhelecuna was the player going back to the Mets as part of the

deal, which really is the result of their willingness to eat money. But more importantly,

Max Scherzer, year two with the Mets was not going nearly as well as year one.

There was a clear need in Texas to upgrade that rotation once Jacob de Grom went down.

We've talked about how injury tolerant they were building that group of starters.

So what should we expect from Max Scher with the move to Texas over these final two plus months?

Yeah, I wrote it up for the athletic. one of the things that I noticed was that, you know, his stuff is down on his fastball.

He's got a nine year low in fastball v. low, career low in fastball spin, you know, the slider

vows down, you know, just basically the kind of stuff

that stuff captures it, and it's, you know, it's all down a little bit. The thing that I also

notice, though, is he has five pitches that are near average or better by Stuff Plus. He's

always been a guy that's outperformed to Stuff Plus a little bit with his moxie or his pitchability

uh pitchability plus

uh moxie plus through the charts

and um you know uh he's still

by our projections the top 15

guy by most projections still a really

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