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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Bryan Woo's Ascent Toward Ace Status & The Next A's Core

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss the quality of the Brewers' bullpen with Trevor Megill on the IL due to a flexor strain, Luis Robert's 2026 outlook as his season appears to be over, Bryan Woo's ascent to ace-level results, and what we've learned in Year 1 with the A's in West Sacramento as their position player core comes together. Plus, they consider the possibility of an in-season MLB tournament, before playing the latest installment of 'Name! That! Dude!'.


Rundown

3:06 Trevor Megill to the IL; The Brewers' Bullpen Without Megill

6:53 Luis Robert Jr.: Another Injury-Shortened Campaign

14:34 Bryan Woo's Excellent Stretch; Ace-Level Results

26:52 What Have We Learned About the A's in West Sacramento?

41:01 In-Season Tournaments in the Future?

53:35 Name! That! Dude! (Season Series Before Episode: Trevor 4, Eno 1)


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

With: Trevor May

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:14.1

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0:19.7

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1:09.2

We got some baseball news.

1:10.6

You should know the brewers are down their closer, at least for a couple of weeks, perhaps longer. Trevor McGill is on the shelf with a flexor strain. Luis Robert is heard again. His season is likely over. On a positive note, Brian Wu looks really good. We'll dig into what he's doing that's enabling him to pitch really at a level that's among the league's best this year.

1:30.8

Some really interesting numbers behind what Brian Wu has done.

1:34.2

We're going to check in on the A's.

1:35.6

They're playing great right now.

1:36.9

20 and 10 in their last 30 games, only two teams are as good or better during that span.

1:42.7

Try to figure out what the A's might have learned

1:44.4

while in West Sacramento in year one of question mark.

1:48.6

I'm going to leave that open end, and I think they could be there much longer than they anticipated.

1:53.1

We're going to kick around the idea of in-season tournaments because we're in that funny

1:56.4

part of the schedule where, you know, maybe Major League Baseball could do something to entice folks

2:01.9

to get excited leading into the September stretch run.

2:05.2

We'll talk about how that might work.

2:06.6

We've got some mailbag questions and a name that dude, which surely will cheer me up.

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