Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Thursday, August 11th. Derek Van Riper here with Enos

on this episode. We'll discuss some recent pickups that we believe in, players that we think can make a difference down the stretch and possibly into 2023. We'll have some hitters. We'll have some pitchers as part of that group. Got a lot of good mailbag questions to get to, including one about the possibility of Juan Soto aiming for two mega contracts instead of just one.

I think that's a pretty interesting kernel to put in the popcorn popper.

What else do you do with a kernel, you know?

Pretty good thread to pull on.

There you go.

Not sure why I was thinking about corn, a little early for that.

But I had some questions also about why more leagues haven't shifted to saves plus holds and the pros and cons of using salaries if you're going to set up a dynasty league.

So we begin with the recent pickups we believe in.

Open question for you.

We'll start with hitters.

Are there any hitters you've picked up in the last few weeks?

It could be from this post-deadline fab run that we just had,

or even from the last month or so,

guys that you've picked up during the second half that you think are going to be very

productive the rest of the way and possibly more impactful in the future

than we previously expected.

Well, I kind of took this a different way.

Not necessarily the larger group of all pickups,

but was thinking about kind of young players

that have come into more time

since the trade deadline or just recently um and uh you know I think that one person that's really turning the corner right now and I think you know in keeper leagues and stuff he's he's probably gone already but in redress, Vinnie Pascontino is, I think, turning the corner.

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