Checking In on the Baseball & Weekend Waiver Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the increased drag on the baseball in 2025 and consider the related impact on xStats. Plus, Aaron Civale gets his wish, Jacob Misiorowski shows electric stuff in his big-league debut, and Christian Moore is on his way to Anaheim.
Rundown
1:03 Aaron Civale Traded to the White Sox for Andrew Vaughn
7:13 Christian Moore Joins the Halos
13:33 The Impact of Increased Drag on the Ball in 2025
26:50 Weekend Waiver Preview: Hitters of Interest
36:04 Brenton Doyle v. Jo Adell and Other Power-Speed Combo Players
42:26 Connor Norby Has Runway, Can He Turn It Into Shallow League Value?
46:38 Jacob Misiorowski: Electric Stuff in MLB Debut
54:43 Ben Casparius: An Opportunity to Make a Few Starts?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, June 13th, Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.6 | We dig into the debut of Jacob Mizorowski that went down on Thursday night. |
| 0:26.1 | We're going to make that part of the weekend waiver preview because Misirowski will be among the pitchers. |
| 0:31.6 | Many of you are thinking about adding in weekly leagues over the weekend. |
| 0:35.2 | Got a little bit of baseball news you should know, including a story that Eno co-wrote with Evendrelic about the increased drag on the ball this year. There might be some things in the X-Stats that are a little different than we expect as a result of that. And if we got a little baseball news, you should know as we get started today. As always, you can join our Discord at the |
| 0:54.8 | link in the show description. And if you enjoy the show, be sure to hit the like button on YouTube. |
| 0:58.5 | Leave us a nice rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen. |
| 1:03.6 | Let's start with the Brewers, though, a team that apparently is run by a genie that grants |
| 1:09.0 | wishes. Aaron Savali wanted to be traded and he got what he wanted. |
| 1:13.2 | He's now a member of the Chicago White Sox with Andrew Vaughn going back to the Brewers in the deal. |
| 1:18.7 | Didn't take long for them to move on from Aaron Savale. |
| 1:21.8 | And I have a couple quick takeaways on this one. |
| 1:24.9 | Let me know if I've solved this deal completely. |
| 1:28.3 | One, I don't think there was much of a trade market for Andrew Vaughn after the White Sox chose to option him to AAA a little earlier this season. |
| 1:36.3 | That squashed any little bit of trade value he would have had in the first place. |
| 1:41.3 | And two, because of money and because of everyone knowing that Savali wanted to trade and the |
| 1:47.6 | Brewers had depth, they didn't have a lot of leverage either. |
| 1:51.3 | So this was kind of a, these two teams sort of meet each other. |
| 1:55.7 | And the way I look at it is Vaughn's going to Nashville for now. |
| 1:59.2 | He's depth. |
| 1:59.8 | He's got options. |
| 2:00.7 | The Brewers get three plus months of a guy that never reached his potential in Chicago, but maybe they can find something to tweak with him. And if they like what they see, they have him for the rest of this season. And they can pay him for the final year of arbitration next year before he hits free agency. and for Savali, you gets a chance probably for the next six plus weeks to work like a regular |
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