Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, August 4th, Derek Manriper here with

Enosaris. We are now two days removed from the trade deadline. And what a trade deadline it was. We, of course, had our live stream on the Athletic Baseball show. It's the 30 show episode for this week, which I think until Britt comes back should just be the 2-0 show. If we have a guess, we can call it the 3-0 show.

It was just the 2-0 show.

But will it be the 4-0 show when she comes back?

Yes, that's the question.

How active will our new fourth host on the show be in the first few months?

That's a good question, and a great unknown really for us as we continue potting.

We'll talk about the busy trade deadline, some observations now that things have sunk in.

It seems like an appropriate time to have a prospect of the week segment as well.

So we will dig into that.

We've got a few mailbag questions to get to some trading related stuff as well.

Now that we've had time to absorb it, the Soto trade, as it has come to be known,

and San Diego's all in push at this deadline, it's just fun because teams don't ordinarily go this hard all at once.

And I think it is refreshing because the contrast of what the Brewers did,

and they were a part of the teams that made deals with the Padres,

trying to get it right long term and short term.

Thread the needle.

Trying to be perfect.

Let's try to get a little better right now and have more long-term value here. I think that's a really, really fine line to walk. And it's also, there's a few downsides to this. Like, it's so much easier to be the aggressive buyer because your team gets excited. Your fan base gets excited. Everyone loves you, right? If you're

AJ Preller, you can do no wrong in this moment. When you try to thread the needle,

the David Stearns is trying to. No one loves you. Everyone turns against you, the people that

are asked about the moves. Your own players. The players are sad. You're a first place team

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