Baseball Honors Jackie Robinson & Kevin McGonigle Cashes In
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Jed, and DVR celebrate Jackie Robinson Day as all teams around MLB honor the first player to break the color barrier. Then, the guys discuss Tigers shortstop Kevin McGonigle’s new deal, Noah Schultz’s big league debut with the White Sox, and take a closer look at the Brewers’ issues at the plate and in the bullpen.
Rundown:
2:35 It’s Jackie Robinson Day!
17:41 Tigers SS Kevin McGonigle Signs Extension
28:33 White Sox LHP Noah Schultz’s MLB Debut
37:05 Jed’s A’s-Rangers Observations
49:25 Batter vs. Pitcher Splits Are Worthless
58:47 Brewers RP Trevor Megill’s Early Struggles
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, baseball celebrates the legacy of Jackie Robinson. |
| 0:04.0 | Kevin McGonagall gets a contract extension from the Tigers, and we deep dive into three games, including Noah Schultz's big league debut. |
| 0:12.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Wednesday, April 15th. Of course, it's April 15th. |
| 0:26.7 | Baseball honors Jackie Robinson today. We also have some big news with another extension. Kevin McGonagall gets paid. We'll break that down. |
| 0:35.8 | We also took a different kind of approach to prepping for today's show. |
| 0:39.8 | Instead of doing the usual thing or we're flying around watching as many games as possible, |
| 0:44.7 | we stopped and honed in on one game each for a few different reasons. But we have three |
| 0:50.5 | different games that are on the rundown today. We have Rangers A's, which was Jed's homework. |
| 0:56.9 | We have Ray's White Sox, which was Eno's homework for the Noah Schultz debut. |
| 1:01.7 | I offered to watch the Brewers again because I was going to watch them anyway |
| 1:05.2 | because there are some key questions around that team right now that I wanted some answers to. |
| 1:10.4 | Hey, hey, I'm just trying to survive over here, you guys. How's it going for you on this Wednesday, Jed? Great. I, uh, you know, it's funny. I, I told my kids yesterday, uh, when they got home from school that I had homework tonight, too. Um, and they, they, they liked my homework better than they like theirs. Uh, but, but, you know, it was, I did have to multitask a little bit because the Blazers had a huge game against the Suns last night. |
| 1:33.9 | So they, they, they won that play-in game and they are the seven seed taken on the Spurs. |
| 1:39.2 | So I'm really excited about that. |
| 1:41.4 | I've got to, I had to multitask, too. |
| 1:43.2 | I was at a little league game. |
| 1:46.8 | And I was trying to watch the, the White Sox game at the same time. |
| 1:50.4 | And my son had the best game of his life so far. |
| 1:54.1 | I mean, it was great. |
| 1:55.3 | Yes. |
| 1:55.9 | He got, Cal got, uh, four strikeouts and five outs. You got five outs, four strikeouts in five outs. |
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