Welcome to Rates and Daryl's, it is Friday, March 1st, Derekman-Riper, Enoceris, Trevor May here with you on this Friday. Welcome to March. This is amazing. We're less than four weeks away from opening day. It's coming up quick. We've got the series in Korea happening a week ahead of that. So on this episode, we're going to cover a lot of ground again. We have a new stat cast metric that's going to measure misses for individual pitches. It's almost like Trevor

wished for it a couple weeks ago, and it happened. So we're going to talk about that, how we might

use that information as it becomes publicly available over the course of this season. Spencer Strider

working on a curveball. We'll talk about the importance of that pitch for him. We'll talk about the

difficulty of preparing for that early start in Korea for the Dodgers and Padres. And our deep dive this week will be into the cutter. So everything you ever want to know about cutters, we're going to try and cover that at some point during the show. Now, Trevor, you had a big weekend last week and you were at the A's fan fest. And you said, of all the fan fest you've ever been to, that may have been the biggest one ever?

Yeah, at least, you know, the ones I've been to with the twins, aside from the first one, when I was there, and I think it was 2013, when it was still in the Metrodome before they tore it down.

In Target Field, you can't see that many people together all in one place, but it was pretty

crazy.

It was pretty crazy.

And it was standing room only in for like a city block.

So if that puts it into perspective for you, it was pretty impressive.

You said they ran out of beer?

They ran out of beer.

But right at the right time. Like out of beer, but right at the

right time. Like literally, they got to like right in the end and then like, and now go home.

And it's over. See later. So I think of the vendors, because they got a bunch of vendors last

minute. People aren't familiar with that. They had someone drop out and then it kind of rallied a bunch of other smaller breweries to join in. So they actually got a bunch of people participating right at the last minute for that too. And it just worked out really well. The people who put it together were very, very, very excited and happy with how it went. Yeah, I like those guys. Last dev bar. Great job. Kind of an organization that puts

out, you know, T-shirts, merch and tries to keep like fandom separate from team ownership.

You know, it's like it's this line they were walking. Like, uh, I talked to the field work owner

about the situation because Drake dropped out,

Drake Brewing dropped out and they had served beers in the Coliseum.

They have some sort of contract with the Coliseum.

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