Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday at July 19th. Derek and Riper, I know Sarah's here with

you on this episode. We have our 20 2024 second half rebound draft.

We're looking for players who had negative value through the first half of the season,

drafting them hoping to do better in the second half.

So it's a head-to-head, me versus Eno scenario in this one.

We got Project Prospect with a few players coming up, including Jacob Wilson for the A's,

Brooks Baldwin for the White

Sox, and River Ryan soon to join the Dodgers. Of course, we'll have our weekend waiver

wire preview, so a lot to cover in there. Eno, how's it going for you on this Friday?

It's going great. I'm about to leave for Seattle tomorrow, so I won't see you guys next week, but it'll be some much needed rest.

Full house, four shows still coming anyway, even with Eno enjoying some time off. If you'd like to

join us in the Discord, you can do that using the link in the show description. There's actually

stuff in there like free tickets to a Pirates game, thanks to Eno. So you never know what you'll find in the Discord. So be sure to join if you haven't done so already. Let's get things started with this rebound draft. The main point of the exercise is for us to discuss some of the players that have underperformed to this point and explain why we think they're going to be better going forward. As I mentioned up top, the rules are pretty simple.

We're looking at the Fangraphs Player Rader, 12 team 5 by 5, looking for players who had

negative value and played at least one game in the big leagues prior to the All-Star

break.

I think we're going to try to make this a seven-round effort, and the rule is going to be you

can't have more than four hitters or four pitchers. So it'll be three and four in some combination. No specific positional requirements because it doesn't quite work out to do it that way. And if we remember to do this, I'll try to put it on the Google Calendar. I'll tally it up at the end. We'll see looking at the same auction calculator, when it puts the second half 2024 option up there, we'll see who accrued the most second half value.

And since you're going on vacation, and since I made this up and didn't tell you

other than just putting it on the rundown, I will let you have the first selection in our

first second half rebound draft.

And since I'm just doing this on the fly with very little preparation, I'm going to take the

...