Brandon Woodruff's Impressive Return & Big Changes in Washington
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the return of Brandon Woodruff, Corbin Carroll's surprisingly quick activation from the IL, likely Tommy John surgery for Clarke Schmidt, a midseason rollback of Drew Rasmussen's workload, the arrival of Colson Montgomery, the Nats' decision to part ways with Mike Rizzo and Davey Martinez, and where the money went during the weekend.
Rundown
2:46 Brandon Woodruff's Return to the Brewers' Rotation
11:14 Corbin Carroll is Back
14:48 Clarke Schmidt Likely to Undergo Tommy John Surgery
21:38 Colson Montgomery Promoted by White Sox
28:57 Drew Rasmussen's Mid-Summer Role Tweak for Innings Management
33:20 Nats Fire Mike Rizzo & Davey Martinez
47:23 Mailbag: Team Quality & Save Opportunities
52:45 Where the Money Went: 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. |
| 0:14.7 | Derek Benriper, Eno Seris, here with you. |
| 0:16.6 | On this episode, we have a lot of ground to cover, Busy, busy weekend with the holiday weekend here in the States. |
| 0:23.8 | Brandon Woodruff got back for the Brewers. |
| 0:26.0 | I thought he looked pretty good in his first start back after anterior shoulder capsule repair. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll dig into what might be next for him. |
| 0:34.3 | We got a quick return from the IL from Corbyn Carroll, maybe a little too quick. |
| 0:38.5 | Some bad news on Clark Schmidt. |
| 0:40.5 | An interesting usage of Drew Raspison, temporarily at least, in that Ray's rotation mix. |
| 0:46.6 | We had big changes with the Nats, talked a lot about them on last Tuesday's episode. |
| 0:51.6 | Mike Rizzo and Davey Martinez both out with a week before the 2025 |
| 0:57.8 | MLB draft. So the Nats making some big changes. Had a great mailbag question to come in about |
| 1:02.6 | save opportunities. And we'll dig into where the money went during the holiday weekend. |
| 1:08.9 | Eno, how is it going for you on this Monday? |
| 1:11.6 | It's going pretty good. |
| 1:13.0 | It's a little crazy here in the household. |
| 1:16.1 | We are trying to pack. |
| 1:18.5 | Our cousins visited last minute from Hawaii, |
| 1:21.7 | and our plane to Germany leaves tomorrow early afternoon. |
| 1:25.4 | So a lot of stuff going on. |
| 1:28.3 | That is a lot. |
| 1:29.5 | It's actually imagining your house right now is like the scenes from home alone, |
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