Chase Burns Is Headed to Cincinnati & Injuries Are Piling Up
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a busy weekend around the league including the announcement that Chase Burns will make his Reds debut Tuesday night against the Yankees. Plus, key injuries to Chris Sale and Adley Rutschman, awaiting MRI results on Corbin Carroll, Francisco Alvarez's demotion to Triple-A, and where the money went with pickups in fantasy baseball leagues over the weekend.
Rundown
2:18 Chase Burns to Debut on Tuesday v. Yankees
6:59 Corbin Carroll's Thumb Injury; D-backs' Offense Continues to Roll
12:16 Chris Sale's Fractured Rib Cage; Opportunity for Didier Fuentes
18:29 Adley Rutschman's Absence Through the All-Star Break
20:15 Francisco Alvarez Optioned to Triple-A
27:30 Injury Follow-Ups and Other News
32:08 Moving Quickly Ranking Rookie Pitchers
40:00 Where the Money Went, Brady House's Interesting Approach
53:49 Lingering Concern About Max Scherzer's Thumb?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Reed and Daryl's. It is Monday, June 23rd. Derek Riper, Inoceris, here with you on this episode. Lots of baseball news to get to over the course of this episode. |
| 0:21.6 | We are awaiting the results of an MRI for Corbyn Carroll. |
| 0:25.2 | We have an anticipated debut of another pitcher coming up. |
| 0:28.6 | Chase Burns joins the Reds. |
| 0:30.1 | We'll talk about what he brings to the table and some expectations for him. |
| 0:33.8 | Unfortunately, some other injuries, though, Chris Sale down with a rib fracture. |
| 0:54.6 | We'll get to that a little bit later on. It does create an interesting opportunity for a prospect that has flown through the Atlanta system this year in Dider Fuentes. But more to come on that in just a bit. A surprising demotion of Francisco Alvarez to AAA. He has struggled, but we'll get into that story as well. We'll look at where the money went. Tons of other storylines along the way. Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:58.7 | All right, a little bittersweet this morning, some bad news about John Snow, our cat of 10 years or so, |
| 1:07.8 | had an unfortunate interaction with a coyote and is no more. John Snow, RIP, |
| 1:14.8 | I'll miss you. We did not see I die. The thing I got mostly from him were hisses. |
| 1:26.1 | Well, you know what? |
| 1:27.8 | The fact that, you know, he spoke his mind. |
| 1:30.4 | Like, that's something I can appreciate. |
| 1:32.2 | He mostly wanted to fight the rest of the animals we had. |
| 1:35.4 | And he did produce heavily during his younger years |
| 1:38.9 | was a good rat catcher for a while. |
| 1:42.0 | But there's no more so RIP John Snow. |
| 1:45.4 | Sorry for the loss, man. Family pet's always hard to say goodbye, even in a situation where |
| 1:50.4 | the family pet may have been frequently hissing at you. |
| 1:55.6 | It's a weird, weird moment. |
| 1:58.2 | I could feel the kind of variation in emotions as you share that news. |
| 2:04.6 | But let's get to some baseball news. |
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