Welcome to Rates of Barrels. It's Thursday, June 30th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. Kind of feels feels like the last day of school with it being the last day before a long weekend for many of us here in the States. I'm working on Friday. I've got a show in the afternoon. We'll do the waiver show at 4 Eastern if you want to check that out. You'll see me chatting. Yeah, you're chatting. You'll have the cat gifs going. You'll answer a lot of questions. You know, there's still work to be done, but it does feel like the last day of school to me or something close to it. On this episode, we're going to talk about some potential second half role changes. We took the leaderboards, flipped them upside down, as we tend to do from time to time on this show. I call them laggard boards. I don't know if anyone else calls them that, but that's what I call them because it's really the part of the board you don't want to be on. So we're going to look for some players that will possibly lose their role, possibly be replaced as a result of contending teams upgrading that spot via trade, lots of paths.

And we're going to take a look at pitchers, we're taking hitters, all sorts of guys in different scenarios.

And since it's appropriate, we're going to have a prospect of the week before we go.

And probably a beer of the month since we've got the long weekend ahead of us.

I think Eno's got some beer thoughts to share with us on this Thursday.

So we begin with pitchers.

Some of the worst starters in the league.

I took the K-minus B-B percentage leader board, flipped it upside down, and I'm not at all surprised to see Dakota Hudson sitting right there at the very bottom of the list, a 2.4% strikeout minus walk rate that is abysmal.

And Hudson's one of those guys.

We really can't figure out how he's as effective as he is with underlying skills like that.

And he's not the only current cardinal starter near the bottom of the leaderboard.

They've got Andre Palante picking up extra innings right now with Jack Flaherty down.

He's under 5% as well.

So we talked about this a bit on the 3-0 show that went up on Thursday.

They need in a big way.

The Cardinals in a big way need an upgrade for this rotation and possibly a second depth option to fall back onto as well.

Yes, I think that they need more help up front than in the back.

I don't actually think Hudson's going to lose his job

because he's basically the fourth starter.

Is he even the third starter?

I don't know how he gets away with this, though. I really don't. I mean, who, like, what's the pecking

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