3,000 Strikeouts for Kershaw & Fourth of July Weekend Waiver Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 74 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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Guest: Niv Shah
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by E-Trade from Morgan Stanley, Derek Van Riper. |
| 0:16.2 | Enoceris here with you. |
| 0:17.6 | It is Thursday, July 3rd. |
| 0:23.9 | We have a special episode today because there's no Friday episode this week with the 4th of July here in the States. And as we will do, hopefully |
| 0:29.7 | every year that this podcast exists until the end of time, we will celebrate one of America's |
| 0:36.1 | birthdays by talking about hot dogs. Thanks to our senior |
| 0:39.9 | hot dog correspondent, Niv Shah. He will join us a little bit later on in the show. We'll talk about |
| 0:45.0 | the hot dog plans we have for ourselves. So if you're not getting to the ballpark and you're |
| 0:48.8 | making them on your own grill, how are you coping? What are you doing? What's your plan? Because I think |
| 0:53.6 | Eno is building his |
| 0:54.7 | plan on the fly. Baseball-wise, though, we had a milestone reached on Wednesday. Clayton |
| 1:00.4 | Kershaw got to 3,000 strikeouts. We had more injuries. Max Muncie actually got hurt in that |
| 1:06.3 | game. We learned of a Spencer Schwellenbach injury that could turn into a significant absence for him. |
| 1:11.8 | We have a demotion. |
| 1:13.3 | We have a gambling probe. |
| 1:15.0 | And we have your usual pre-weekend waiver outlook. |
| 1:20.4 | So we have a lot to talk about here for a Thursday. |
| 1:25.5 | Eno, let's start with Clayton Kershaw. |
| 1:27.4 | Gist to the 3,000 strikeout milestone, |
| 1:30.1 | a little bit of a grind for him to get there, |
| 1:32.3 | kind of a fun night at the ballpark if you're a Dodgers fan |
| 1:35.3 | because the Dodgers actually came back to win a game |
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