Building a Breakout, Pitcher Edition

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss the Orioles' slow start and mounting pitching injuries and wonder -- is this a 2025 playoff team? Plus, they dig into four fast-starting pitchers in search of potential breakouts, and how teams can try to combat increasingly aggressive basestealers within the constraints of the pitch clock and limited disengagements. Rundown 6:44 Do You Expect the Orioles to Make the Playoffs? 13:56 Tylor Megill: New Breaking Balls Supporting a Breakout? 22:52 Casey Mize: Delivering on the 1.1 Potential? 27:38 Kris Bubic: A New Sustainable Mix in the Royals' Rotation? 34:00 Hayden Wesneski: What's New in Houston? 41:46 How Can Pitchers & Catchers Slow Down Basestealers? 1:04:17 Name! That! Dude! (2025 Record: Trevor 3, Eno 0) Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social Follow Trevor on Bluesky: @iamtrevormay.bsky.social e-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris With: Trevor May Producer: Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.5	welcome to rates and barrels it's thursday april d'nuiper you know saris trevor mann and ryan Welcome to Rates and Beryl. It's Thursday, April 24th. Derek Van Riper, Eno Seris, Trevor May, here with you on this episode. We'll get to some baseball news you should know. But the main focus of today's show is a segment we're calling Building a Breakout. We're looking at some fast starters in 2025, trying to determine if this is going to be a massive step forward or a small one.
1:30.2	So we've got a quartet of pitchers.
1:32.1	We're going to break down for that.
1:33.9	We've got to name that dude later on the show.
1:36.0	So if you see Eno shaking on YouTube, that is why.
1:39.2	He's nervous.
1:40.0	He's been hearing us talk about it pre-show.
1:42.4	It's been on the rundown since yesterday.
1:44.7	So we've got that.
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