Emmanuel Clase Placed on Leave, Ryan McMahon to the Yankees & Nick Kurtz Makes History
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Emmanuel Clase's placement on non-disciplinary paid administrative leave through August 31st as MLB's sports betting probe continues. Plus, Ryan McMahon to the Yankees, a flexor strain for Aaron Judge, and a four-homer night from Nick Kurtz to kick off the weekend.
Rundown
0:57 Emmanuel Clase Placed on Non-Disciplinary Paid Administrative Leave as Part of MLB Gambling Investigation
10:33 Ryan McMahon Traded to the Yankees
16:04 Aaron Judge to the IL w/Flexor Strain
20:05 Seth Lugo Signs Extension w/Royals
27:18 Nick Kurtz's Four-Homer Game
32:52 Where the Money Went: Blake Treinen's Return
36:08 Intrigued by Troy Melton?
50:11 A Matt Shaw Comp From Eno
52:34 Rob Manfred Visits the Phillies' Clubhouse
59:06 Thomas White and Trey Yeasavage Are Cooking at Double-A
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels, presented by E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. |
| 0:15.1 | It is Monday, July 28th. |
| 0:17.6 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. |
| 0:20.4 | We have some trade deadline appetizers to snack on from the weekend, a few trades, including one that sent Ryan McMahon to the Yankees as the Yankees continue to try and bolster that roster. We have an errant judge I. Lestin to talk about as part of that as well. A surprising extension, at least to some of us, Seth Lugo getting a couple extra years from |
| 0:39.8 | the Royals. |
| 0:40.4 | We'll talk about the implications of that and why they decided to go that direction. |
| 0:44.7 | Nick Kurtz had a monster game, a four-homer game, the 20th in MLB history, which seems |
| 0:50.6 | like that happened years ago because the other huge news that just dropped a little before we started recording is the news that Emmanuel Class A has been placed on non-disciplinary paid administrative leave. |
| 1:03.8 | As MLB continues its sports betting investigation, Class A will join teammate Luis. Ortiz on leave through August 31st, |
| 1:12.8 | kind of another bombshell in a story that had faded to the background for now |
| 1:17.5 | we were waiting for the investigation to play out, but now we know there's a second player |
| 1:20.7 | connected to it with Class A now being on leave as well. |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah, this is terrible news. It's terrible news. I guess the only hope that we can |
| 1:28.5 | have is the same hope that baseball has that this is one ring. This is one situation that has |
| 1:35.0 | expanded to include another pitcher because if it's multiple situations with multiple gambling |
| 1:40.7 | rings, that would be terrible. I know that there are a lot of analyses, |
| 1:45.9 | and I've taken part in this. I tweeted out the picture of Luis El Ortiz's first pitch that was |
| 1:52.1 | one of the pitches that they were looking into, like the gambling activity around that pitch, |
| 1:55.7 | and it was a ridiculous pitch that he basically threw right into the ground. There are |
| 1:59.6 | similar images for Class A, |
| 2:01.8 | but I just wanted to reiterate that the actual pitches into the ground is not necessarily the |
| 2:08.1 | problem. So we don't have to launch an investigation every time there's a crazy, like we were |
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