Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, May 31st. Derek Van Riper here with

Enosaurus on this episode. We've got some news and notes, a big promotion in Atlanta as AJ Smith Schaver joins the bullpen, at least for now, some longer-term questions there.

Shover's a good nickname.

It really is.

Injuries in Detroit to Edward Rodriguez and Riley Green, unfortunate because both players were having very good seasons.

Harrison Bader goes back on the IL.

We had some pitch-specific questions that were coming in about Grayson Rodriguez in the wake of his demotion.

So we'll address those a bit on today's show.

I figure we'd also take a look at the Second Chance League surprises.

I mentioned on yesterday's show, there have been a handful of drafts over at the NFBC that are for the rest of the season going forward. So we'll talk about some of the big movers that really have caught our eye. And we will get to the mailbag questions that we did not get to on the Tuesday episode, specifically a question about Nolan Gorman. So let's begin today, you know, with AJ Smith Schaver.

It's a bullpen role for now, but it's pretty clearly a starter's arsenal.

And long term, this is a guy that we're likely going to see in the middle or even possibly

closer to the front of the Atlanta rotation.

Yeah, pretty excited about him.

The minor league stuff plus suggests that he's got an elite fastball.

The scouting has been positive about his breaking balls.

The results have been through the roof.

The only asteris I have is a strange thing where the fan graph scouting grade on the curveball is a 40 present, 50 future.

The stuff plus on it is not great in a very small sample.

And other people have mentioned that it's really big movement.

So I wonder if it's just such a big curve.

While he also didn't use it very much in AAA,

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