Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Monday, August 15th, Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. On this episode, we will discuss the suspension issue to Fernando Tatease Jr. How that might impact him beyond this season. We're going to discuss C.J. Abrams, as he is going to be called up by the Nationals. We'll kind of make sense of what he has done to this point in his young big league career and what that might mean for his long-term future.

We're also going to take a look at some power shifts, some players who are among the biggest risers and fallers in slugging percentage for this season.

Some interesting names on both of those lists.

We've got a couple mailbag questions we're going to try to get to later on in the episode as well.

You know, how was your weekend?

I need a weekend from my weekend.

It was insane.

It was absolutely insane.

My wife was down in San Diego helping her sister move down there.

And so I had the boys for a great portion of it.

And there were three parties we went to in two days.

We did two baseball practices and a tryout. My 10-year-old had his first. He's trying

out for a little league fall ball team. So he had to actually perform in this moment. And so I was

very nervous for him, but he did a good job hit a single up the

middle i'm hoping for double a assignment um and uh uh one of the parties was in santa cruz

and then yesterday in the evening we took them to their first concert nice so we went to frostphitheater here on campus and saw my morning jacket with them. Yeah, I saw a flyer for that concert. I thought about going and then forgot that I saw the flyer and then I saw your picture from the concert and said, oh yeah, that's right. That was a concert. Concerts are fun. I should have gone to that concert that's very close by. That would have been a good thing to do. So how was the concert?

It was good. It was fun. And Frost is just an amazing arena because it's like a three to maybe 5,000 fits like full. So it's small and it's like nestled in the trees and you can't actually

see it from anywhere like around it because it's like just this little hill that they like you know

put uh put seats on basically so it's a it's an amphitheater style with like uh grass seats for

half of it and And so we,

and apparently you can bring your own food.

We looked over and these guys had a whole cheese played out, you know.

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