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Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. Happy Monday. We had a trade go down pretty soon after we

stopped recording on Friday afternoon. So we narrowly missed being on there for breaking news,

which I know makes everybody really happy. Yes. I'm going to keep an eye on Twitter just to be safe. So we'll talk about that deal. We're going to talk about the concept of organizational brain drain because it definitely relates to one of the teams involved in that trade. We'll talk about making better in-season decisions. Lots of great questions came in. So we're going to try to answer as many of those as we can. Plus, we get Spencer Howard back up in Philadelphia, so we'll talk about what we

might expect from him in the weeks and months ahead. You know, let's start with this trade.

It's pretty rare to get a starting caliber player moved early in the season, but it happened.

Willie Adames, along with Trevor Richards, going to the Brewers, J.P. Fire Eisen, and Drew Rasmussen,

going back the other way to Tampa Bay.

At the time the trade happened, everybody said, Wander Time.

And the raise 30 minutes later said, nope, Taylor Walls time, which, you know, Taylor Walls is a nice prospect.

We'll get to him in just a minute. But one thing that really struck me... Taylor Walls time, which, you know, Taylor Walls is a nice prospect.

We'll get to him in just a minute.

But one thing that really struck me looking at this trade was Willie Adamas's home splits at the drop are just brutal.

And I'm trying to figure out just how much I want to adjust accordingly with my expectations.

Like getting out of that difficult environment for him to hit and going into a hitter-friendly park absolutely is worth something.

But he is crossing over leagues.

I'm going to see a lot of pitchers he's less familiar with.

And he's been running a high K rate now going back to the shortened season.

So I guess I'm trying not to expect too much too quickly, even though I

think this is a clear upgrade for him. Yeah, he can't just like take that away split, that 292,

365, 493, 493, beautiful baby and stick it in the new crib to continue that tortured analogy.

You know, so I doubt he'll have a 130 WRC plus as he has had away from home.

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