Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Tuesday, July 16th.

Derek and Riper, Inoceraris, here with you on this episode.

We will dig into a lot of All-Star Break-related topics.

We have our home run derby recap, Tiaska Hernandez, Bobby Witt, Jr., among the players, putting

on a show on Monday night.

We've got some interesting thoughts on batted ball spray angles.

We'll take a look at some interesting information on that front. Got a bunch of mailbag questions we're going to answer as well. We're going to check in on the listener league at the break, see who's in the top 10, see where Eno's at, see where Eno's at, see where I'm at. Oh, don't. It does not do that. Maybe we'll skip that part, but we'll talk about some players that have been great in that format so far and try to figure out if that will continue. Because there have been some very big surprises that have carried some teams into the top 100. Colt Keith's turnaround has probably been good for me, but I have not looked in a while because I didn't want to. Yeah, I got Colt Keith too. So it's not going to be a separator as we try to battle it out and try to find a place near the middle of the pack before the end of the season. We'll have a couple of our usual Monday segments today. Since we spoke with Melissa Lockard on Monday about day one of the draft, we'll have where the money went and some notable drops. So tons of ground to cover. It was to Oscar Hernandez winning this year's Derby.

It was an exciting finish because it came down really to the last swing.

Bobby Witt, Jr. sent one to the deepest part of the ballpark, hit the wall about halfway up.

So I think we were all kind of sweating that one out watching seeing if he was going to go to a swing off in the finals.

Yeah, I mean, I had the nerd cast version on, of course. I imagine you had the same just to see launch angle, exit, Velo popped up on there on the screen for everyone. That to me, that's appropriate usage, because you need to know, like, what are the chances this ball's getting out and you could kind of get a feel for it? I flipped between them a little bit and I almost felt like the regular cast was learning from the, the nerd cast because early on on the regular cast, they weren't showing the nitro zones as much.

And then people, they were, by nitro zones's I'm just talking about they they

showed like the where the very best exit velocities where that player was the

best in terms of slugging in the strike zone so you could see if the guy was

throwing him the the pitcher was thrown the BP pitcher was throwing him the

balls in the right place if he's making the right swing decisions, you know, that sort of stuff. And I saw that

more and more on the regular cast, you know, as the night went on. So that kind of reminds me

of the piece where Mike Petriello said, like, you know, what we used to do on the nerd cast

is now just regular Sunday night baseball. They took

Eduardo Perez. They took our, you know, they took our producer. So I think there was some

learning going on there. But also the changes in the rules was like a big conversation. It used

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