Another Injured Astro, Jesús Luzardo & 'Streaky' Pitchers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Eno is back from Germany and he rejoins DVR to discuss a few news items from the weekend including an IL stint for Isaac Paredes, an intriguing pitcher in Texas, the inconsistency of Jesús Luzardo and the idea of a 'streaky' pitcher, Jorge Polanco's massive strikeout rate improvement, and intriguing waiver-wire targets from the first weekend after the All-Star break.
Rundown
0:00 Intro Starts
6:11 Another Position Player Injury for the Astros
11:34 An Intriguing Starting Pitcher Waiting in the Wings for the Rangers?
18:40 Jesús Luzardo: A Deep Dive
27:12 How Did Jorge Polanco Cut His Strikeout Rate This Much?
34:50 Criteria to Consider for Decisions Between Very Similar Players
44:53 Where the Money Went: Luke Keaschall and a Potential Crowd in Minnesota, This Weekend's Waiver Wire Pickups
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. |
| 0:15.9 | It is Monday, July 21st, and Eno is back. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome back from Germany, Eno. Ah, it's Eno is back. Welcome back from Germany Eno. Ah, |
| 0:22.9 | it's good to be back. I had |
| 0:24.9 | a great time but we realized |
| 0:26.9 | that we had planned it almost perfectly |
| 0:28.9 | we were ready to come home. |
| 0:31.8 | We had |
| 0:32.4 | eaten so much sausage |
| 0:36.1 | and drank so much beer, not the kids, of course. |
| 0:39.9 | But what I did discover is that in Germany, at the beer gardens, they serve their sodas |
| 0:46.6 | in Steins. |
| 0:48.1 | So indoctrinate the youth at early age, I guess. |
| 0:51.9 | Lots of pictures of my kids drinking beer-looking liquids out of Stein. |
| 0:58.1 | But we also toured all the great museums and gardens of Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich, |
| 1:05.6 | went to the castle that it was the inspiration for the Disney Castle. |
| 1:10.6 | This is a funny little tidbit, though. |
| 1:12.4 | It's called Neuschwanstein. |
| 1:14.3 | And the thing that's interesting about it is, |
| 1:17.1 | it was a copy of a medieval castle. |
| 1:22.1 | It itself was built in 1880. |
| 1:24.5 | So it is not a medieval castle itself. |
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