Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, November 18th. Derek Van Riper here with

Enosaris on this episode. We've got a few news items to pass along, but then we are going to have a hitter stat draft. We're going to try and choose stats in the order of importance for us as we try to evaluate players. If we're trying to paint a complete picture and want to figure out how we're

going to do that what do we want on the palette so to speak what do we want to look at first as

we're starting to build up that profile of individual players you know how's it going for you on

this wednesday it is good it is good um my county went into purple and I'm just praying that the school stays open.

But, and I'm hoping that everybody is healthy and happy that's listening and that their loved ones are in good, good standing with regards to all this mess we're in.

But otherwise, we're doing all right.

Yeah, that's kind of the same over here.

I mean, I don't have children trying to go to school or anything.

So that's one stress I do not have.

But it's scary to say the least.

And hopefully, at least we can serve as some sort of distraction from that chaos in the weeks and months ahead.

Let's start with the news that we learned in the last 24 hours or so.

Cody Bellinger had shoulder surgery.

So, you know, initially we saw the shoulder bump or arm five or whatever

you want to call that. I don't know what that is actually called. Like I, everyone could picture

the celebration. It always looks like it hurts. It clearly hurt Cody Bellinger when he did it.

And that was in game seven of the NLCS. Then he homered in the World Series, and I thought,

maybe the shoulder's just okay.

But he actually did have shoulder surgery to repair a dislocated right shoulder.

And it's about a 10-week recovery window.

So he should be back to normal or close to normal when spring training begins.

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