A Prospect Promotion In July, Building Midseason Momentum & A Fast Decline
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt, and DVR congratulate Jayson Stark for his induction in the NSMA Hall of Fame, and discuss the arrival of James Wood and the intriguing timing of his promotion by the Nationals relative to the league's tendencies to promote top prospects. Plus, they discuss a few teams attempting to carrying the momentum of strong June into the second half, before discussing a handful of players they are interested in seeing during the Futures Game, and the swift decline of Tim Anderson.
Rundown
0:44 Jayson Stark Inducted to the NSMA Hall of Fame
4:00 The Nats' Decision to Promote James Wood on July 1
14:02 Whose June Momentum Will Carry Into Second Half?
25:23 The Cardinals Are Quietly Hanging Around & Pitching Well Recently
33:28 Futures Game Rosters Released
39:42 KBO Regular Season Games in Theaters?!
44:01 Tim Anderson DFA'd by Marlins; Why Did He Decline So Quickly
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels Tuesday, July 2nd, Derek Van Riper, you know Sarah, |
| 0:19.0 | Richard Roli, all here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.1 | We dig into some recent runs. |
| 0:24.4 | Whose June momentum will carry into the second half? |
| 0:28.3 | We're going to talk about the futures game rosters for a bit. |
| 0:30.7 | Those were released on Tuesday morning. |
| 0:33.2 | Got some interesting stuff happening in Korea with the KBO that we're going to talk about later in the show. |
| 0:38.5 | And Tim Anderson has been designated for assignment by the Marlins. |
| 0:43.0 | But today we begin with a couple of news items, first and foremost, one that you may not be aware of. |
| 0:49.5 | Our friend Jason Stark was formally inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame. |
| 0:56.1 | So congratulations to Jason on that well-deserved honor. |
| 0:59.8 | I think Jason's one of those writers that has weathered being a baseball writer for his entire career in the sense that Jason's still happy and positive, right? |
| 1:09.9 | So many baseball writers reach the later years of their career and you feel like the beat |
| 1:15.2 | or just the coverage of the game has kind of made them cynical. |
| 1:19.1 | Jason's not like that at all. |
| 1:20.3 | Jason's fantastic. |
| 1:21.5 | And of course, he's still podcasts on the windup feed, the feed that the three of us used to be a part of each and every week |
| 1:27.6 | on Monday, so be sure to check that out. |
| 1:29.7 | But a well-deserved congratulations to Jason. |
| 1:32.8 | Yeah, a total role model for me and just really, really happy for him. |
| 1:38.1 | And yeah, I do. |
| 1:40.2 | I have seen a lot of beat riders, you know, kind of get beat down by the sport a little bit. |
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