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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Brandon Pfaadt Returns and Tommy Pham Heats Up

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

DVR and Al discuss the Diamondbacks’ big news, as Corbin Carroll deals with shoulder soreness and Brandon Pfaadt struggles in his return to the majors, They also discuss the arrival of Orioles prospect Jordan Westburg, other hitters to target, including red-hot Tommy Pham, pitchers to consider adding and the White Sox’s bullpen situation.


Rundown

1:12 The Diamondbacks lead off this week’s news items

6:57 The other news items of the week

23:06 Jordan Westburg and some other notable callups

31:34 A few hitters of note

40:03 Streamers and two-start pitchers

50:11 Closer corner


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0:00.0

Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday, June 30th. Derek, I'm here with Al Malkyor on this episode.

0:21.0

Dig into some of the biggest fantasy stories on the week as we get ready for the upcoming

0:26.3

Fab Run in week leagues on Sunday.

0:28.7

Of course, if you don't have fab, we're still going to have conversation that's helpful to

0:32.4

you too as we dig into various players who are available.

0:35.9

Rough week if you're trying to stream pitching, I'll say that up top.

0:38.9

So it doesn't really matter how shallow your league is unless surprisingly useful pitchers

0:43.8

have been previously dropped.

0:45.9

It's a very thin waiver wire.

0:48.3

Not a lot out there for relief pitchers either.

0:50.6

So it's also too early, I think, at the end of June to start throwing those speculative

0:56.1

darts in bullpens where the closer may be traded. You don't want to hold for four weeks. You want to

1:01.3

hold for one to two, so we can't quite get out in front of that just yet. But there was a lot of news

1:06.0

that happened this week. There were some changes to rosters that I think are going to be relevant to us.

1:12.3

The good news to start to show is that Corbyn Carroll, who left early this week with a shoulder

1:17.6

injury, fortunately doesn't seem to have a major setback. It's a surgically repaired right shoulder

1:23.1

in which he left after a swing. So the initial reactions were highly concerned for good reason.

1:31.0

I did see the debacks recalled Dominic Fletcher,

1:34.2

so we'll see if there's anything that happens with Carroll between now and the end of the weekend,

1:38.7

but for now it's still more of a day-to-day sort of injury.

1:42.0

Fletcher, Al, is just one of those guys.

1:43.8

I've always looked to him as kind of a product ofto-day sort of injury. Fletcher, Al, is just one of those guys. I've always looked

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