Welcome to Rates and barrels to Monday, March 10th, Derek Van Riper, Inoceris here with you on this episode.

We dig into the recent rash of

injuries around the league, especially to pitchers. It's been a rough couple of days for

rankings, for rotations. We'll dig into the implications of that. Eno is on location in Goodyear.

If you're watching us on YouTube, you see the background, you see Eo the spring training shades on. So we are in true March form on this pod. We're also getting to a few mailbag questions a bit later on in the show as well. And as we have for the last few shows, we're going to start with a little bit of housekeeping, a reminder of our upcoming live shows at Bear Bottle Brewing Company in San Francisco on opening day, March 27th, and the Friday after opening day, March 28th, 430 local start free admission.

We'd love to see as many of you out there as possible for that because we had a special beer we collaborated with. Eno got to make it. And we're excited about that. We're excited to get out there and have some live shows right around the festivities opening day. Oh, we've seen the merch. We've seen the merch. New logo. Exciting. It's a merch logo. We're going to keep the bats for the podcast, but we've got a new merch logo that we're going to use. So we're excited about that. I think people are going to dig it. And I will have that merch on hand when we get to those live shows unless there's some kind of like shipping error. I shouldn't promise anything because you can't trust shipping. That's right. We're on time for it right now. Oops. I'm always the guy who's like,

and this and this and this.

And I'm like,

oh, well, that didn't work as her.

We're supposed to have it there. We'll see. We're supposed to have merge. Well, we'll have merch of some sort. It might just be personal items that we've gathered. The backup merch. It's kind of like at first pitch Arizona for years, Ron Chandler, he would be downsizing getting ready for his retirement move to Florida.

So he just brings it. backup merch. It's kind of like at first pitch Arizona for years, Ron Chandler, he would be downsizing,

getting ready for his retirement move to Florida.

So he just brings stuff?

Yearbooks of, you know, the team media guides and various collectibles.

It was always a great prize table, courtesy of Ron's basement.

So that might be the merch if our merch doesn't

show up on time. Hopefully our merch will show up on time. As for the news, it is not good.

It's not good. It was a bad week in news. Usually, you know, we were cruising along pretty good for

the first week of spring training. I felt like we may have been a little bit under for how things normally progress,

but you get through that first and second turn to the rotation.

Elbows and shoulders and lats all start barking.

And the big one is that Garrett Cole has been advised to undergo Tommy John surgery.

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