All-Star Break Weekend Waiver Preview & Seattle’s ‘Sumo Dog’
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
DVR is joined by Ryan Bloomfield of Baseball HQ to discuss First Pitch Arizona 2025 (Nov. 6th-9th), long-term targets to stash, and a few players to consider on the waiver wire this weekend. Plus, Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah checks in with a report from T-Mobile Park in Seattle, where Sumo Dog comes through with a contender for 'Best Dog of the Season'.
Rundown
3:14 First Pitch Arizona Registrations are Open!
https://www.baseballhq.com/pricing/first-pitch-arizona-2025
7:18 Brice Matthews Gets the Call to Houston
11:43 Updates: Hunter Greene, Cole Ragans & Blake Snell
17:02 Stashing Samuel Basallo in Redraft Leagues?
20:47 Would You Rather (Rest of 2025): Cam Schlittler v. Emmet Sheehan
23:22 Other Pitchers You're Stashing Now in Long-Term Formats
32:59 Hitters to Stash in Long-Term Formats
37:09 Would You Rather (Rest of 2025): Tyler Freeman v. Colt Keith
40:37 Waiver-Wire Bats to Consider
54:50 Mailbag: Which Post-TJS Pitchers Do You Target?
1:01:54 Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah Joins the Show!
1:11:57 2025 MLB Draft Class Availability in Ottoneu Leagues
1:17:59 Starting an Ottoneu League During the All-Star Break
1:21:50 Sumo Dog at T-Mobile Park A Contender for 'Best Dog of the Season'
1:26:45 'The Seattle Dog' Not As Pictured
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels, presented by E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. |
| 0:19.7 | Derek Van Riper here with guest help today. |
| 0:22.9 | Friends carrying me through with Enosaris in Germany on this Friday. |
| 0:27.9 | Today I'm joined by one of my best friends in this business, a co-manager of my XFL team, |
| 0:33.2 | the person currently leading mixed labor, at least at last glance, the person I'm chasing in that league. |
| 0:39.2 | Great writer from baseball HQ, great podcaster, one half of Bubba in the Bloom. |
| 0:44.2 | I'll give you one guess. It's Ryan Bloomfield. Ryan, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:48.5 | Appreciate it, DVR. Always a pleasure to talk to you. And yeah, I wish first in mixed labor, |
| 0:53.5 | wish we could get that XFL team over the hump. |
| 0:55.6 | But we're trying. |
| 0:57.1 | We're trying. |
| 0:57.8 | We're living life in that league in the dreaded middle where our core is good enough |
| 1:03.0 | to talk us into always trying to go for it again and not tear it down. |
| 1:07.0 | It's young enough and just enough talent. |
| 1:08.7 | And I think it's clear seeing how the people that have been in the league longer go for the absolute just rip it down to the studs sort of approach that we probably at some point we'll have to commit to something like that if we want to get out of the upper middle third, let's call it. |
| 1:25.7 | I think we're right now our best case scenario is probably finishing third place. |
| 1:30.1 | And what I think is weird about most leagues is that feels awful. |
| 1:34.1 | It's a 15 team league. |
| 1:35.1 | It's a hard league. |
| 1:35.9 | It's full of a lot of tandem groups and just very sharp people. |
| 1:39.7 | It's very hard to be good in that league. |
| 1:41.6 | And yet somehow third place would just seem disappointing to me. |
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