Edwin Díaz's Sticky Stuff Ejection, Max Scherzer Returns, and Lowered Expectations
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss another busy weekend of baseball that included a sticky-stuff ejection for Mets' closer Edwin Díaz, the return of Max Scherzer to the Rangers' rotation, more injuries in the Marlins' starting unit, Giancarlo Stanton's quietly strong season before a trip to the IL, and much more.
Rundown
4:57 Edwin Díaz: Ejected for Sticky Substance Violation; 10-game Suspension on Tap
10:11 Max Scherzer: Picks Up Victory in Return from IL
15:02 Jesús Luzardo Likely Out 4-6 Weeks
22:36 Giancarlo Stanton's Quietly Good 2024
30:25 Which Early-Round Player(s) Are You Avoiding in Trades?
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45:45 Where the Money Went
58:05 Weekend Drops
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Monday, June 24th, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you. |
| 0:20.1 | Another busy weekend in baseball. Lots of injuries. We get Max Scherzer coming back from a long stint on the aisle. Pitched pretty well his first time out. We'll dig into all of those news items. We'll look at some of the sources of where the money went over the weekend, as we do each and every Monday. Some of the more interesting pickups from weekly fantasy leagues, and we'll take a look at some players that were dropped going the other way in 12 team leagues. Plus, we got a new tool that actually is not that new. We just didn't see it before today. Fangraphs now has a player raider, so we'll talk a little bit about some ways that we're going to be using that going forward as well. |
| 0:55.2 | Eno, |
| 0:55.4 | how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:57.6 | Doing great. |
| 0:58.9 | I am older now. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.7 | How about that? |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.4 | That's like definitely past the point of which you're like, yay, birthday and a little |
| 1:10.2 | bit more like, hmm, that's a number. |
| 1:13.7 | What do you got now? |
| 1:14.6 | You got a good baseball number at least? |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.8 | I wonder who has my... |
| 1:19.9 | 44? |
| 1:20.3 | Number 45. |
| 1:23.0 | Yikes. |
| 1:23.6 | 45. |
| 1:25.1 | Prince Fielder, I think, might have been a 45. |
| 1:27.6 | No. No, Prince was 28. |
| 1:29.4 | Baseball reference has a whole... |
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