Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, September 19th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

On this episode, we will attempt to answer a very frequently asked question over the past week or so.

Which hitters are most likely to benefit from the new restrictions on shifting, which will be in effect for the 2020.

So we fumbled our way through some savant searches, trying to come into the group of

players that should benefit in some way.

We'll debate whether or not it's actually going to be a small uptick in production,

medium uptick in production, or perhaps even a venty uptick in production.

We've got a few other good questions related to defense,

and then, of course, we haven't talked about this on our show for a while,

but Shohay Otani versus Aaron Judge in the ALMVP race

and the battle that is ensuing there,

but also the challenges of properly valuing Otani.

I want to talk about that because it's a topic that everybody's all over right now,

but I also want to talk about it from the sense of recency bias,

since that has a massive impact on how we value players going into next season.

So we begin with a simple question.

You know, how was your weekend?

Good.

Good.

Yeah, good.

The, uh, the, the, the, there were baseball games.

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