Welcome to Rates of barrels. It's Thursday, June 20th, Derek Ben Riper,

Eno Seris here with you on this episode.

We dig into some recent news.

A lot of star players coming back from injuries.

A couple guys going down with new injuries, so we'll get into that.

Project Prospect, as we have each and every week on Thursday,

digging into some prospect-related news and a few names that might be of interest to you in various formats.

We're also going to have our weekend waiver wire preview where it looks like the guardians might be up to something again, you know.

They're always up to something.

I deserve to be shamed for writing them off because I watch a team that does it in a similar way on an

everyday basis. So for me to be a skeptical of the guardians of all people, I deserve extra shame.

Well, I mean, there's a lot going on there. We've talked about the ballpark dimensions changing

and how it's become more offensive friendly. And I saw a really interesting graphic from at Brooksgate this week that showed the square footage of the field of like fair ground in each park.

And Cleveland was the second smallest.

Surprise. So the smallest was Cincinnati?

I think Fenway. Fenway's a little smaller.

And when I was looking at that and just thinking about park factors and it's an interesting

idea to be known for churning out pitching and then all of a sudden change your park.

There's something to this maybe that smart teams are making park changes at certain times

in their organizational development process.

Just think of the Orioles in Mount Baltimore.

That seems like very much like a planned thing, you know?

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