Debut City
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Eno Sarris and Chris Welsh are breaking down Christian Encarnacion-Strand's debut, where he can play and who else it hurts. Grayson Rodriguez vs Andrew Abbott vs Bryan Woo, waivers and more
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, friends, and welcome into Rates in barrels. |
| 0:19.4 | I am Chris Welsh. |
| 0:20.1 | That is Enoseres. |
| 0:21.2 | There is no DVR. |
| 0:22.9 | DVR will return soon. When will now be then, Eno? Tomorrow. Soon. Soon. Remember, the space balls. Yeah, right. When will now be then? Soon. Yes, DVR will be back here very shortly. But today you have Welsh and Eno and we have actually |
| 0:39.3 | got a little bit of a pseudo project prospect, if you will, on this Monday edition. If we're |
| 0:44.3 | going to be focusing on a lot of the latest news and stuff like that, well, there's a ton |
| 0:48.0 | of prospect stuff going on. There's debuts, there's re-debues, there's call-ups, and we're |
| 0:53.8 | going to be discussing all of that here shortly. Do want to remind everybody if you guys want to make sure you have access to everything the Athletic has to offer, like all of Eno's, great articles, and more. Go to theathletic.com slash rates and barrels. You can sign up today. A couple bucks will get you locked in. You can download the app, and you will be raring to go. |
| 1:11.3 | So why would you not go do that? |
| 1:13.1 | Probably the most, it's hilariously enough, you know, the most anticipated call-up |
| 1:18.4 | simply because we have been waiting and waiting and waiting. |
| 1:23.2 | I've been a pretty big, loud, you know, I don't know, screamer of this guy for like two months because I thought he was going to be one of the first call-ups in all of the crazy rookie mess. So I think that's what's made it so intense. It's finally happening. Christian Incarnacion Strand with the Reds officially called up. So kind of post-all-Star break, all the things are happening. Lots of prospects. |
| 1:44.5 | We'll probably talk about tomorrow moving up levels. And then you're also getting, you know, |
| 1:49.2 | over the weekend we had the A's guys come up at CES Christian Incarnacion, Stran, officially being |
| 1:55.4 | called up. And there are a billion questions we're going to be going through as far as where does he play. |
| 2:01.6 | How does that affect the team? |
| 2:03.2 | I know everyone's going to want to know that. |
| 2:04.5 | But Strand, 20 homers in AAA. |
| 2:07.8 | He did it in 67 games, 65 runs in 62 RBI in 67 games. |
| 2:15.4 | He hit 331, had an under 22% k percentage and a double digit walk percentage those are |
| 2:21.6 | all the things that he did while in triple a so it's highly anticipated so you know what are your |
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