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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Chase Burns' Impressive Debut & AL Playoff Picture Check-In

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Eno, Jed, and DVR discuss Chase Burns' impressive big-league debut against the Yankees, an ugly fan incident in Chicago against D-backs second baseman Ketel Marte, and the Cubs' choice of Cade Horton over Ben Brown in their rotation with the return of Shota Imanaga, before taking a deep dive into the AL playoff picture with a focus on the third Wild Card spots.


Rundown

2:55 Chase Burns' Impressive Debut

9:05 Abusive Fan Ejected (and Banned) After Heckling Ketel Marte

14:49 The Cubs Choose Cade Horton over Ben Brown (Optioned to Triple-A)

21:52 Buying the Mariners, Rays, and Jays as AL Wild Cards?

30:51 The Rays Are Surprising (Some of Us) Again

43:24 Team(s) Most Likely to Pass Current Wild Card Holders

49:21 Can the Twins Recover in 2025?


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

With: Jed Lowrie

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Walk to Rates and barrels.

0:12.7

It is Wednesday, June 25th.

0:14.9

Derek Ben Rybrino, Saris, Jed Lowry here with you on this episode.

0:19.1

We dig into the Major League debut of Chase Burns

0:22.0

took place on Tuesday night against the Yankees.

0:25.5

We are recording this just prior to what might be the pitching matchup of the year,

0:30.6

question mark, between Paul Skeen's and Jacob Mizorowski.

0:33.2

So as soon as this episode's over, we are all going to consume that in some fashion.

0:38.0

I'm a little jealous.

0:38.8

I actually feel like I maybe could have justified not being here today and just letting each of you do more work in my absence while I took that game in in person.

0:48.6

But I decided not to abandon my friends.

0:50.6

I showed up for the pod.

0:52.7

I know.

0:53.7

I know.

0:56.1

I could have been enjoying a brat.

1:01.8

Could have had some nice seats. This is your de Grom. You know, Ms. Zerowski, I wrote about him today.

1:07.3

And one of the fun things about Mizorowski is just that he has the same kind of movement over arm slot, expected arm slide as DeGrom. He kind of has DeGrom's fastball. And then with the 96-mile-hour slider, he kind of has like peak de Grom's slider. Actually, in a lot of ways, I think DeGrom is the comp for Mizorowski. It's not quite the same command, though. Take DeGrom, make them taller, give them more extension, and let them throw a little harder.

1:28.5

And then that's Jacob Misrowski. But then take away a little command.

1:32.1

Yeah, yikes. I mean, the command long term, though, right? I think that's where DeGrom has been so

1:39.4

successful for so long. I swear that dude could put it on a dime any of his pitches.

1:44.7

Mizorowski gets to that point, unfair.

1:47.3

In terms of like stuff and location numbers, I looked at it, and the comp is actually

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