Cubs, Astros Weathering Key Pitching Injuries & How to Collect Cards in a Hot Market
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR, and Jed break down how the Cubs plan to fill Cade Horton’s spot in the rotation after news of his season-ending torn UCL. They also discuss Astros ace Hunter Brown’s status following a Grade 2 shoulder strain, and later welcome baseball card enthusiast Sean Campbell to explore the ins and outs of the card collecting world.
Rundown
2:43 Cade Horton Out For The Year
8:48 Hunter Brown’s Shoulder Strain
17:25 Other News & Notes From Around MLB
26:08 Sean Campbell’s Start In Card Collecting
28:55 Sean’s Favorite Cards
30:24 Card Grading
31:42 Goals As A Collector
35:22 Considerations For Grading
37:11 Finding Sellers You Trust
39:51 What To Expect In Cheaper Boxes
42:17 Understanding Value
48:16 Advice From An Expert
53:34 Older Cards
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Jed Lowrie & Sean Campbell
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, we discuss a season-ending injury for Cade Horton, a lengthy absence for Astros Ace Hunter Brown, |
| 0:07.0 | and how you can still do well collecting baseball cards in a red-hot market. Let's go. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels, it's Wednesday, April 8th. Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, Jed Lowry here. |
| 0:28.5 | And on this episode, we are getting into some injury news. Got a great conversation coming up later in the show with Sean Campbell, a hobbyist-turned professional card dealer. We've observed in the last |
| 0:40.1 | couple of weeks, a lot has changed since we were collecting cards as kids, and it's important |
| 0:45.2 | to start cutting through a lot of those changes if you're going to get back into it. We figured |
| 0:49.5 | April's a great time to do that because we're waiting for more stuff to happen besides the injuries, |
| 0:54.6 | which we're going to here in just the second. |
| 0:57.6 | Eno, how's spring break going for you? |
| 0:59.6 | That's good. |
| 1:00.1 | Yesterday we went to the aquarium and a fancy mall down here in San Diego, and we had a good time. |
| 1:08.6 | All right, Jed, latest golf score since we last spoke? |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Well, we're currently putting in a new pool at the club. |
| 1:17.6 | So our 18th green is temporary and our ninth hole is shut down. |
| 1:22.5 | So I'm playing 16 and a half holes right now. |
| 1:25.0 | So it's a little skewed. |
| 1:28.7 | But yeah, I played okay. But more excitingly, baseball and softball have started, little league baseball and |
| 1:34.2 | softball have started. So we've got one one game of each under our belt. Beautiful. And, uh, |
| 1:40.7 | nothing but dubs, I assume. Yeah, because that's the most important thing for, you know, |
| 1:45.1 | nine-year-old, nine-year-old little league and, you know, 12-year-old softball. |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, that's always the first question I'm going to ask. |
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