A Weekend of Major Injuries and Another Attempt at Making Adjustments

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss another round of injuries including a UCL sprain for Spencer Strider, Tommy John surgery on tap for Shane Bieber, a significant hip flexor strain for Luis Robert Jr, and a dislocated shoulder for Trevor Story. Beyond injuries, they discuss Ronel Blanco's encore and the ongoing battle in the Astros' rotation for a spot once Justin Verlander returns, and several players whose value shifted over the past week.

Rundown

1:31 Spencer Strider Has a UCL Sprain; Course of Action TBD

6:20 Shane Bieber Will Have Tommy John Surgery

14:09 How to Adjust to Losing an Ace Early

17:04 Luis Robert Jr.: Grade 2 Hip Flexor Strain

25:30 Gerrit Cole: Ready to Begin Throwing Program!

32:11 Adjusting Draft Strategy or League Setting in the Future to Counter Multi-Year Trend of Elevated Pitching Injuries?

44:25 Trevor Story's Suffers a Dislocated Shoulder

48:01 Alex Kirilloff & Oliver Dunn

53:22 Eno's Bargain Adds From Week 2

59:22 A Case for Spencer Turnbull Beyond Streaming

1:04:10 Good Pickup, Bad Pickup?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rates and barrels.
0:15.7	It is Monday, April 8th.
0:17.3	Derek Van Riper here with Enoceris.
0:19.2	On this episode, we dig into the rash of injuries that popped up over the weekend. It was not a good weekend on the health front for several players around the league. We'll dig into that. We're going to take a look back at where some of the money went as far as fab pickups, discuss whether it was good spending, bad spending, or something in between.
0:40.2	Good to a few questions, I think, from our Discord over the course of the show as well.
0:44.1	If you're not in the Discord yet, the link to join is in the show description, no matter where you are listening to or watching this podcast.
0:51.1	Just look at those show notes.
0:52.7	You'll find that link.
0:53.5	Join the many folks
0:55.6	that are in there discussing their favorite teams, strategy, news and notes, everything you'd all
1:00.6	want in one place. Eno, how's your elbow feeling this morning? I actually have a little bit of
1:07.3	elbow soreness because I've been holding my phone and doing too much
1:12.8	game changer at the little league games. But it's doing pretty good. I'm one of the few people
1:21.7	who doesn't need to see Dr. Keith Meister right now. Yeah, I don't want to see Dr. Keith Meister today, tomorrow, or ever, if I could help it.
1:30.9	Unfortunately, Spencer Strider is having a visit with Dr. Keith Meister for a second opinion.
1:37.5	And unfortunately, we already know Spencer Strider has a sprained UCL.
1:41.5	A sprain is a tear.
1:43.0	The severity of that tear is to be determined once we know the severity of the tear.
1:47.3	We'll know what the course of treatment is, be that Tommy John surgery, which would be Strider's second.
1:52.9	He actually had Tommy John back in college, Clemson, 2019, internal brace or PRP injection and rest.
2:01.0	All those things are still on the table at the time of this recording.
2:03.8	One o'clock Eastern on Monday, a lot can change very quickly.
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