Welcome to rates and barrels. It's a live one. It's Friday, March 8th. Derek and Riper, Enosera, Trevor May, all here with you on this episode. We are going to dig into a bunch of recent stories that were written on the athletic, including one that breaks down some of the secret sauce in the Reyes organization with catching targets. We've got pitches that have multiple shapes as a way of expanding an arsenal,

something that Sahad of Sharma wrote about, focusing on Justin Steele, but we're going to expand

on that a bit.

We've got our deep dive focusing on sliders and sweepers, and Eno had a collaboration piece

that just went out today with Ken Rosenthal looking at the possible links between sweepers and arm injuries, which is a great place to start.

So, you know, you had this collaboration piece that just went up, and the million dollar, maybe billion dollar question, people have been racking their brains about doing research on for years, is how do you keep pitchers healthy? Like, that is the main question. People have been racking their brains about doing research on for years is how do you

keep pitchers healthy? Like that is the main question. And I feel like a lot of people try to work

backwards. They try to find a thing that's causing guys to get hurt and reduce that or eliminate that.

But what do you think is really going on with the sweeper and some of the things you were looking at

in the story

it's really difficult to talk about pitcher injury there are like camps that are like we have

the perfect mechanics and like if you pitched like we pitched you would never get hurt um they're

definitely uh those acolytes that are out there um they don't usually throw 102. And so that to me is the actual

source of injury. It's V-Lo. If you look at it, Drive-Line has a piece about if you just put the

modus sleeve on the elbow and you test which ones, you know, stress your elbow the most,

it's fastballs. It's the V-Lo. If you look at different studies, you know, stress your elbow the most. It's fastballs. It's the Velo. If you look at

different studies, you know, Jeff Zimmerman's injury ratings on my pitching ranks,

those are one of the biggest things in there is fastball Velo, you know, also previous injury,

but fastball Velo. It's because there's been research from glen flisick at as m i about how

vlo itself is a big stressor sitting closer to your maximum vlo is a big stressor so you know

there is a little bit of a thing where we're breaking ball vilo is maybe slightly more stressful

per sort of mile per hour um but's only Jake deGrom and like

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