Welcome to Rates and Barrels.

It's Monday, August 28.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode.

We're going to take a look at some players who are surprisingly meaningful at the end of this season.

Maybe it was guys that were drafted that had become critically important to our rosters, but in a few cases,

it's players that were nowhere near our roster back when the season started.

And here they are holding down important roles as the final month of the season approaches.

And this was really inspired, you know, by a comment, I think, that was on your chat about Cole Regens.

Because Cole Regens looks like he is going to be a late season difference maker.

I believe it was Steve G.

who made a request that we spent some time assessing Reagan's and what he brings to the table

and trying to project out what the final five or six starts of this season might look like from him.

And just from how did he get to Kansas City perspective,

I'm still surprised the Rangers flipped him for three months

of our oldest Chapman, if only because Reagan's is a big arm from the left side that could do

at least the basic things that Chapman does out of the bullpen. But as we're seeing with him as a

starter in Kansas City, there's probably a lot more that Cole Regans can do.

Yeah, it's, it's really kind of amazing. I don't, I can't think really of a transformation this like ridiculous in one season. I mean, when was the last time? I mean, we talk about

Velo bumps and stuff. What was the last time, like, four miles an hour?

Like, that's never happened. Like, I can't, that's, like, ridiculous, right? Like, Mitch Keller,

we were, like, talking about him just this beginning of this season, getting more Vilo, and wasn't it, like, one?

I think his was, like, incremental over a couple of off seasons if he's increased.

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