Welcome to raids and barrels. It's Thursday, May 23rd, Derek and Riper, Enosis, Trevor May, all here with you for the next hour on this episode. We're going to talk about pitch tipping. How often does it become a problem? Who's trying to spot it? How quickly can it be fixed? We're going to talk about a few recent instances where that was happening, maybe a few situations where it could have been happening, but we don't have proof just yet. We're going to talk about a few of the fighters we ignored on last week's show. We were looking for young pitchers we would choose for the next three-plus years, and there were probably a half-dozen guys that made the Mortal Kombat graphic who didn't even get a mention during the pod. So we'll dig into what we like, what we don't like about those pictures, what they might

need to do to be chosen in a future scenario in which they are in a mortal combat situation.

I've got a good question from our Discord about the best strikeout we've seen so far this

season, so we'll break a few of those down.

And I have lost my mind.

I have an expansion plan that is bigger and better than any expansion plan I've ever seen, at least.

So, Eno and Trevor can talk me down from that one, explain all the reasons why that is probably a pipe dream and impossible.

So we begin today with tipping pitches.

And this is one of these things that is super subtle.

If you're watching on TV, it's often hard to see.

But I want to know, Trevor, how often is this a problem for the typical pitcher?

How frequently do you start to give something away and have it actually cost you in a game situation?

I think more often than people think, it's something that I struggled with quite a bit because

you, I noticed it's very common amongst guys that like are maybe higher anxiety or higher energy,

you know, like think a lot out there and you get ticks, you get tells that you

can't really notice until after the fact.

The guys who are super chill, like the wheelers and the nullas of the world, they're not

going to, they're not going to tip stuff because they just, it's not something they're worried

about.

I had several times, and usually it's a veteran on a team that's finding it. Our guy in 2015, for example, was Tori Hunter. He picked up everything. He had a bunch of stuff on sale. And we really, really hit sail hard. And he didn't know why. Because there was just some effort things he does in certain pitches. And he just had it. And I'm like, I don't know how you guys you guys commit to this stuff but Tori had been around for so long that like that was something very

popular in the Otts and in the 90s like finding finding stuff so veteran guys were always watching

one guy who was actually notorious for throughout the league and and this was from Tori this is

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