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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Early Season Starting Pitcher Risers

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss news and notes from the weekend including an encouraging diagnosis for Spencer Strider before examining several risers from Eno's first in-season update of his 2024 starting pitcher rankings. 


Rundown

4:20 Underwent Internal Brace Procedure Rather Than Second Tommy John Surgery

7:28 Another SP Injury for Arizona: Merrill Kelly

13:10 Francisco Àlvarez: Out 6-8 Weeks

21:46 Eno's Updated Starting Pitcher Rankings

($) https://theathletic.com/5426812

27:31 Reid Detmers' Early Success

32:22 Casey Mize: Will Strikeouts Show Up With His New Arsenal?

38:09 Javier Assad: What Eno Likes About Him

40:51 Brady Singer: Moves Up Slightly!

44:21 Zack Littell: LODEM Goodness?

48:56 Paul Skenes: Callup Coming Shortly?

53:47 Where the Money Went: Looking Back at Weekend Pickups


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, April 22nd.

0:17.5

Derek Van Riper, you know Sarah, is back here with you on this episode.

0:20.6

We've got some news and notes from the weekend.

0:22.8

We've got fresh starting picture rankings from Eno that dropped the day after he went to fish at the sphere.

0:30.6

So we'll talk about some of the biggest movers on that list.

0:34.7

People were, I saw the responses when you posted that.

0:38.2

They're like, he's at the show last night.

0:40.5

The rankings dropped today.

0:42.0

Legend.

0:42.5

And I'm just laughing to myself.

0:44.0

I'm like, do you think he did the rankings after the show?

0:47.2

Because, come on.

0:49.5

I did finish them in a casino while a friend of mine was gambling.

0:56.0

So you were, okay, so you were up in the room.

1:01.8

You were not at the table.

1:03.3

No, I was downstairs, but, but yeah, I was working.

1:08.6

The thing that happens at the end of the rankings is that I've been looking at them for three, four, five two weeks, three, four, five days, two weeks, you know, like, I've been looking at them forever and I've been moving this guy. Um, he must be. Yeah, I got to move him up. I got to move him down. Oh, I got to. Would I really take this guy over that guy? Nah, you know, like I'm just looking at them and constantly sorting them and sorting them and you know, I'll do things where I like the beginning I like put players in big chunks. So I'm like, these guys are 50s and that's a 30 and he's a 20, you know, like put them in chunks and then I get into it like oh no

1:44.8

no these guys go so but I there's just a moment where I'm like okay I just have to

1:50.7

turn in I'll just have to here here I could keep you know shuttling them around but here

1:57.5

you go and of course as soon as they publish, I'm like, oh, no, Kelly has a what? Yeah, that factor. Yeah, that's a tough one. I just put these in. Or they'll, like, call up somebody and be like, oh, I feel like, where's Bobby Blonde? I'm like, I didn't know he was up, you know. Time is a factor.

2:18.2

How was the show, by the way?

2:20.0

It was crazy.

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