Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, September 12th. How about a pitching episode? Derek Van Riper here with

Eno Seris on this episode. We're going to dig into some second half pitching risers and fallers,

taking a look at a few different things, results, model-based things, seeing where they agree,

where they might disagree, hoping to find some new pitchers we can trust in these final weeks of the season along the way,

maybe a few more established names that we shouldn't be as faithful to in the final weeks as well.

I think those decisions, every little micro decision now feels like it carries extra weight as we're sort of jockeying for position either to cash or hopefully to win a league

You know it's that time of year. Yes, it is. Yes, it is and I in Khan I'm coming for your points record in labor

Had to make a difficult decision to you know in in in labor, it's like a 12-team AL-only league.

It's one of those leagues where you're just trying not to have to drop anybody because

there's nobody on the wire.

And so you're always doing these like, ooh, can I leave this guy on the disabled list a week

longer and, you know, all these sort of machinations?

And so Luis Petino is a guy I'd

been nursing all season you know just in case I needed him for that stretch run

and I didn't have him in for the Yankee thing but I had to have him in this week

because they had this rule where like if he comes up once he comes up you know two or

three days you have two or three weeks uh and then you have to activate him so i would have had to

activate him this week and before he got sent down i was like ah if i either have to drop him outright you

know i have to activate somebody off the anyway you know it's one of those very specific things, but it's actually kind of relevant to,

you know, our discussion because Luis Petino, before we got option today, was the biggest

dropper among starting pitchers in Stuff Plus from June 1 till now.

So, you know, something ain't right with him.

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