Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Monday, April 24th, Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

On this episode, we dig into a recent piece that Eno wrote for The Athletic, looking at some early swing rate changes.

We'll talk about some players who have adjusted their approach for better, maybe a few that have even adjusted their approach for worse in the early going. Got a bunch of great mailbag questions spanning a variety of topics, how to decide on your

drops in a 12-team league with pitching where there are so many seemingly high-performing

pitchers on the wire and underperformers that you liked on your roster.

How do you make those calls as you look at those decisions?

Early power, where could you find it on the waiver wire?

If your team is imbalanced right now, where are you going to go to get power on the wire?

And where could you possibly go via trade and get power that isn't necessarily fully priced?

I think that's the other part of the conversation that we're going to dive into today.

But let's start with the swing rate changes.

You know, this is always a good early

season thing to look at because it's one of these things that actually means something this early.

Not many things actually do. But I think the most fascinating part of swing changes is that

the adjustment isn't necessarily the same for everyone. It's not just swinging less. It's not

just swinging more. It's not just swinging more.

It depends on who you are and where you were coming from. What were your previous issues if you had issues and which of those paths actually fixes it? Yeah, you have to think about somebody like

Trent Grisham, who's swinging more and is leading to more strikeouts, but it's also leading to him

tapping into his power more.

And probably on some is a better idea than leading the league in watching strike three go by.

And so there's some relationship between how good your hit tool is to how good your actual sense of the zone is, you know, what you can like see.

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