Bo Bichette is Back! World Series Updates with Fabian Ardaya and Mitch Bannon
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Britt are joined by Fabian Ardaya to talk about the Dodgers' bullpen 'Circle of Trust' ahead of the World Series matchup with the Blue Jays, the Postseason return of Shohei Ohtani's splitter, Dave Roberts' path to Cooperstown, and Mitch Bannon to discuss Bo Bichette's return to the Jays' roster, and the decision to start rookie Trey Yesavage in Game 1. They also discuss the narratives they want to dispel about this matchup, and a few non-World Series stories including new managers for the Giants and Angels, and the first four franchises in the Women's Pro Baseball League.
Rundown
0:37 An Updated 'Circle of Trust' for the Dodgers' Bullpen
5:45 Is Shohei Ohtani's Splitter All the Way Back?
10:29 Dave Roberts' Path to Cooperstown
13:26 How Did Dodgers Prep for Trey Yesavage's Extremely High Arm Angle?
16:05 Bo Bichette Rejoins the Blue Jays' Roster; How Does the Defense Alignment Work?
22:35 How Will the Jays Choose Matchups with Their Relievers?
28:29 Dispel a Narrative From This 2025 World Series
49:20 Non-Playoff Stories: Tony Vitello to the Giants, Kurt Suzuki to the Angels, and the Women's Professional Baseball League Reveals First Four Franchises
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday, October 24th, Derek and Riper, Enoceris, Brittroli. Fabian Ardaya joins us to begin the show. |
| 0:22.7 | We're going to dig into Dodgers J's as we promised on yesterday's show. |
| 0:26.9 | Both Fabian and Mitch Bannon joining us to answer some questions as game one approaches on Friday night. |
| 0:33.3 | We had roster release on Friday morning, Fabian, and a few tweaks for the Dodgers we did learn on Thursday. |
| 0:40.2 | Alex Vesia is away due to what the Dodgers are saying is a very personal matter, |
| 0:43.8 | so just all the best to him as he's away from the team throughout this series. |
| 0:48.3 | So Vesia and Ben Casperius removed from the roster, Edgaro Henriquez and Will Klein added out in their place. |
| 0:54.1 | Still no Tanner Scott. Familiar question for you, who is in the Dodgers bullpen circle of trust for this series? Because my hunch is that they're going to have to use a bullpen a little bit more in this series than they did in the NLCS. Yeah, I don't think they're going to be getting necessarily eight innings out of every starter, |
| 1:13.3 | like they did the first couple games of that Brewer series. |
| 1:16.3 | I do think that in Circle Trust, it's Rookie Sasaki, first and foremost, |
| 1:20.5 | everything sort of starts with him, which is still somewhat tenuous place to be, |
| 1:25.8 | just because this is all still so new. He had the layoff, |
| 1:29.8 | which will probably help get those mechanics back in line to where they were at the beginning |
| 1:33.5 | this postseason. But it's him. It's Blake Trinan. And obviously, it was always Alex Vescia. |
| 1:39.6 | If you're looking for a left-hand option that he trusts, I would probably go with Jack Dreyer there, |
| 1:44.8 | who is a rookie who I had to learn who he was when he got added to the 40-man roster this past |
| 1:50.7 | winter, but he is a typical Dodgers fine where they just find a guy with a crazy |
| 1:55.9 | induced vertical break who is an undrafted free agent, who is all of a sudden one of the more |
| 2:00.6 | effective rookie relievers in baseball this year, and how he's a guy who is firmly up in the circle of trust entering this World Series. Is Emmett Sheean in there? I would throw Emmett Sheen there, too. That's right. Yeah. He's a guy who, the numbers haven't necessarily been great this October, but he's a guy |
| 2:18.3 | that, like, Dave Roberts firmly trusts. |
| 2:20.9 | Could be one inning, could be multiple innings, could be kind of a fireman scenario. |
| 2:26.8 | He is the guy who, if he really finds it, this World Series, can really shift a lot for the Dodgers. |
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