Eury Pérez, TJ Friedl, Josh Lowe Injury Updates & Tough Hitter Rankings
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss another busy weekend filled with injury news including elbow soreness for Eury Pérez, a fractured wrist for TJ Friedl, and an IL stint to begin 2024 for Josh Lowe. Plus, they dig into several tough hitter rankings as draft season heats up.
Rundown
2:58 Eury Pérez: Dealing with Sore Elbow
7:08 TJ Friedl: Out with Fractured Wrist
11:33: Josh Lowe: Will Open Season on IL
16:26 Kyle Manzardo: Sent to Minor League Camp
23:40 Corey Seager: May Be Ready for Opening Day?
28:29 Any Reason to Worry About Bryce Harper or Aaron Judge?
31:15 Tough Rankings: Luis Robert Jr. & Frequently Injured Early-Rounders
38:52 Oneil Cruz & Young Players Returning From Lengthy Absence
50:42 Luis Arraez & Categorically Imbalanced Players
56:04 Junior Caminero & Players We're Waiting For in 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:18.4 | It's Monday, March 18th. |
| 0:19.9 | Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. We get you caught up on some news and notes from around the league over the course of the weekend. A lot of injury information, unfortunately. It is that time of year. And then we dig into tough ranks on the hitter side. We've got two episodes at the beginning of the week. We have our tough ranks for hitters. We have our tough ranks for pitchers coming out on Tuesday. We'll be on |
| 0:42.3 | planes on Tuesday. So if we say anything about someone who has suffered an injury in the last like |
| 0:48.5 | 12 to 24 hours, that will be the reason why. So there's one disclaimer. We'll put one in the Tuesday episode itself. |
| 0:56.2 | A lot of ground to cover though today. |
| 0:58.0 | And a quick note, this is the last call for the listener league for 2024. |
| 1:03.7 | Get the current link in the Discord. |
| 1:05.3 | We're currently on League 6. |
| 1:06.8 | That means we have over 1,000 entries so far. |
| 1:10.7 | One per person, please. |
| 1:13.4 | Line up lock 10 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for the whole season. |
| 1:17.2 | No in-season pickups, no in-season moves. |
| 1:20.5 | Shout out to our friends at FanTracks for having the customization options available for us to even put this together. |
| 1:26.2 | And again, shout out to Jeff Good for doing the heavy lifting, making the cap, making |
| 1:30.3 | the leagues, and answering a lot of questions in the Discord. |
| 1:33.3 | So go to the Discord, get the link, sign up, and submit your lineup before 10 o'clock |
| 1:38.8 | Eastern on Tuesday night to get in on the fun for the listener league this season. |
| 1:43.6 | If you're playing in a traditional |
| 1:44.7 | league, you're the commissioner, looking for a place to play, check out fan tracks, lots of options |
| 1:49.1 | as far as customizations go. Really deep player pool, too, if you play Keeper or Dynasty |
| 1:54.2 | leagues. It's really nice of them to put that together. I have, I've got a team. I didn't, I didn't do any spreadsheets or |
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