Acuña Injury Watch, March Movers, Zack Wheeler Extension & Matt Chapman to the Giants
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a busy weekend of news including further examination of Ronald Acuña Jr.'s surgically-repaired knee, shoulder fatigue for Kevin Gausman, Zack Wheeler's extension with the Phillies, Matt Chapman's three-year deal with the Giants, a pair of big March movers in recent drafts, and the increasingly complicated playing time situations in Baltimore and Cincinnati.
Rundown
1:31 More Knee Trouble for Ronald Acuña Jr.?
7:36 Chris Sale's Rapidly-Rising ADP
11:00 Kevin Gausman Slowed by Shoulder Fatigue
12:57 Zack Wheeler Signs Three-Year Extension w/Phillies
16:07 Matt Chapman Goes to the Giants
23:43 Fallout & Secondary Benefits to Chapman's Arrival in San Francisco
30:57 Wyatt Langford is Flying Up Draft Boards
37:05 Colt Keith v. Jordan Westburg?
38:44 Building a Bench: Orioles Edition
44:45 Jordan Hicks v. A.J. Puk v. Reynaldo López
51:04 Building a Bench: Reds Edition
58:57 How Much Do We Pay Attention to First- and Second-Half Splits?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, March 4th. |
| 0:18.3 | Derek Van Riper here with spring training, Eno. If you're watching us on YouTube, you can see Eno has a completely |
| 0:24.2 | different backdrop that is old Scottsdale Stadium, the current spring |
| 0:28.2 | training home of the Giants. Looks like some BP taking place there. Very |
| 0:32.6 | nice. And you're being very resourceful, literally |
| 0:36.3 | using a barrel to get the show done today. |
| 0:40.9 | I have this thing set up on a trash can in a room that I'm not sure I'm allowed to use. |
| 0:46.7 | So, this show could be 12 minutes long, could be a full hour. |
| 0:50.8 | We really don't know. |
| 0:51.6 | Bob Euker could come in this door and kick me out with probably some nice cuss words attached to it. |
| 0:57.9 | There's also a chance he'd just sit down and start riffing with you and it'd be the best show ever. |
| 1:02.2 | You on? You on? This is live? |
| 1:06.2 | Oh, how's it going? |
| 1:08.6 | Start talking about brats. Yeah, all sorts of good stuff. |
| 1:11.0 | But tons to cover. |
| 1:12.1 | We had injury news this weekend. We have signings. We have extensions. We have March movers. We're going to try and build some benches. We're going to try and take mailbag questions. All this, of course, time permitting. I will say, real quick, jump into Discord. If you haven't done so already. The link to join that is in the show description. |
| 1:29.7 | Now, we begin today's show with the news about Ronald Acuna Jr. |
| 1:34.0 | He had an MRI on his knee over the weekend. |
| 1:37.4 | That showed inflammation, but he's headed to Los Angeles. |
| 1:41.0 | Could be visiting with Dr. Neil Eletroche right now. |
| 1:43.8 | Dr. Eletrash is the doctor to perform the reconstructive surgery on Acuna's knee back in July of 2021. |
| 1:51.7 | This all kind of followed him getting scratched from the lineup from a game on Friday. |
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