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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Buying High on Surging Starting Pitchers, Future Power Sources & Recent Debuts

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Tanner Houck's excellent start to 2024 on the heels of a 'Maddux' against the Guardians on Wednesday. Plus, they look at the ongoing health struggles for Kris Bryant in Colorado, Yu Darvish's move to the IL, hitters with a path to develop more power over time, and a few recent callups including Jack Leiter, Andy Pages, and Landon Knapp. 


Rundown

1:45 Tanner Houck and Buying High on Surging Starting Pitchers

9:35 Ryan Weathers Makes DVR Look Dumb

15:02 Yu Darvish & Kris Bryant Land on the IL

27:25 Finding Power that Follows Contact Skills

37:08 Jack Leiter Gets the Call

40:31 Andy Pages & Landon Knack Join the Dodgers

47:02 Jonatan Clase Lands in Seattle

51:16 A Very Quick Look Ahead at Weekend Waiver Consideration


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Burials. It's Thursday, April 18th.

0:19.7

Derek Van Riper, Enaceras, here with you on this episode. We have some key news and notes to get to, but more importantly, we have a story that Eno wrote looking at players whose hit tool might be ahead of their power, trying to find power that will show up this season, or at least in the somewhat near future. We're going to dig into a few players

0:38.6

that were recently promoted in this week's edition of Project and we'll take a look at a few

0:42.7

intriguing names as part of our weekly waiver preview. So a lot of ground to cover before

0:48.3

Eno heads to Las Vegas, which has to be really exciting. Going to the sphere.

0:55.3

Yeah.

0:55.6

It's going to be fun.

0:56.7

Yeah.

0:57.2

I'm doing something that I probably shouldn't do at my age,

0:59.6

which is attempting to go to two shows in one night.

1:02.0

So we'll see how we see how that goes.

1:06.0

There's a, yeah, there's another.

1:07.9

I'm going to see fish at the sphere and then a band called Eggie that someone told me I should see is starting at 1130 after the fish show.

1:18.0

So, hey, sounds like a Vegas night.

1:21.6

The 1130 second show is going to be absolutely incredible.

1:26.4

Blow by Blow reports as I get them will be shared with our Discord community, so be sure to jump in the Discord. I'll just put the occasional Eno did this if you give me updates. So you can tell me, if you want to tell me what's going on, and I'll pass it on, you know, as it's deemed appropriate. Let's get to some news and notes, though. Let's start

1:44.5

off with Tanner Hauk. And I think this is a general question based on the state of pitching right now

1:50.5

because of the early season pitching injuries that are piling up again. What I think happens is

1:55.2

guys that start performing really well, especially over a full month to begin the season,

2:00.1

their value takes off.

2:01.7

You're working on some new starting pitcher rankings right now, and guys that are cruising,

2:06.3

like Tanner Hauk is right now, I think are really tough to rank appropriately. And it makes me wonder,

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