3,000 Strikeouts for Kershaw & Fourth of July Weekend Waiver Preview

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the 3,000-strikeout milestone for Clayton Kershaw, injuries to Max Muncy and Spencer Schwellenbach, a demotion for Josh Jung, and an opportunity for Colby Thomas with the A's. Plus, they dig into weekend waiver-wire targets before checking in with Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah ahead of the Fourth of July Weekend.

Rundown

1:29 3,000 Strikeouts for Clayton Kershaw

5:55 Who Else Will Reach The 3,000-Strikeout Milestone?

10:04 Max Muncy's Early Exit w/Knee Injury

12:48 Spencer Schwellenbach to the IL w/Elbow Fracture

22:07 Josh Jung to Triple-A, A DVR Miss

27:16 Luis Ortiz: On Paid Leave During Gambling Probe

32:15 Colby Thomas: Nothing Left to Prove at Triple-A?

40:50 Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah Returns! (The Texas Dog delivers at Nats Park, and Six Picks strategy talk)

1:04:05 Otto Lopez's Push to Shallow League Utility

1:13:55 Hayden Birdsong's 2025 Struggles

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Producer: Brian Smith

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0:25.5	You can find tickets at sarahpasco.com.uk. Welcome to Rates and barrels, presented by E-Trade from Morgan Stanley, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you.
0:49.9	It is Thursday, July 3rd.
0:53.2	We have a special episode today because there's no Friday episode this week with the 4th of July here in the States.
1:00.2	And as we will do hopefully every year that this podcast exists until the end of time,
1:06.0	we will celebrate one of America's birthdays by talking about hot dogs. Thanks to our senior hot dog correspondent, Niv Shah. He will join us a little bit later on in the show. We'll talk about the hot dog plans we have for ourselves. So if you're not getting to the ballpark and you're making them on your own grill, how are you coping? What are you doing? What's your plan? Because I think Eno is building his plan
1:27.5	on the fly. Baseball-wise, though, we had a milestone reached on Wednesday. Clayton Kershaw got
1:33.4	to 3,000 strikeouts. We had more injuries. Max Muncie actually got hurt in that game. We learned
1:39.6	of a Spencer Schwellenbach injury that could turn into a significant absence for him.
1:51.7	We have a demotion. We have a gambling probe. And we have your usual pre-weekend waiver outlook. So we have a lot to talk about here for a Thursday. Eno, let's start with Clayton
1:59.0	Kershaw, gets to the 3,000 strikeout milestone, a little
2:02.8	bit of a grind for him to get there, kind of a fun night at the ballpark.
2:06.6	If you're a Dodgers fan, because the Dodgers actually came back to win a game,
2:10.7	and it looked like they were going to kind of quietly lose to the rebuilding White Sox.
2:15.6	And I was thinking about a few different things when Kershaw got
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