Fantasy Friday | Weekend Waiver Preview: Plenty of Messy Bullpens
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On this Fantasy Friday, Eno and DVR discuss the latest early-season injuries and what they mean for your roster decisions heading into the weekend. Then, the guys welcome Ottoneu’s Niv Shah for a conversation about the bullpen market, followed by the season's first installment of 'Taste of the Majors.'
Rundown
1:20 Corbin Carroll Slowed by Hip Injury
2:49 Brent Rooker Leaves Game with Core Injury
5:46 Parker Meadows Suffers Concussion & Fractured Arm
8:32 Hunter Goodman’s Early Exit After HBP
10:45 Jorge Polanco Slowed by Achilles Soreness
20:32 Weekend Waiver Preview
23:07 Bryce Elder Is Rolling but Eno Is Skeptical
26:14 Kyle Harrison Has Made Changes
32:47 Interest in Luis Gil & Jeffrey Springs?
35:39 Mick Abel’s Turnaround
37:33 Widely Available Starting Pitchers
43:09 Niv Shah Joins the Show to Discuss Messy Bullpens
55:55 Taste of the Majors Is Back! (L.A. & St. Louis Dog Reviews)
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, it's Fantasy Friday. |
| 0:02.5 | We get ready for a busy weekend of Waver Wire pickups, |
| 0:05.5 | and we have our first taste of the majors hot dog reviews of the season |
| 0:10.0 | with senior hot dog correspondent, Niv Shaw. |
| 0:13.1 | Let's go. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to Rates and Bar Friday, April 10th. |
| 0:30.9 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres, Fantasy Friday here on the show. |
| 0:34.5 | Eno, how's it going for you as your spring break winds down? |
| 0:36.6 | I made it to Fantasy Friday. |
| 0:40.5 | The saying is that beer hit my hand like Milnir, and I think I'm going to go to Bach again tonight, the best beer bar in San Diego |
| 0:47.7 | after I work some of the Padres game. But it was a grind. It's not easy to work when your kids are on vacation. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah, I imagine there's some tension there. Oh, they went without you? No, I had to take them. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. So you had a busy day, doubled up. Well, a well-deserved trip to box. |
| 1:12.8 | So, yeah, I hope you get back there on Friday night once to get everything all wrapped up. |
| 1:16.8 | Little baseball news you should know as we get started. |
| 1:19.5 | We did see Corbyn Carroll sit out Thursday's game with a hip injury that was suffered while |
| 1:23.9 | legging out a triple earlier in the week. |
| 1:27.4 | I think the more important thing here, you know, by all accounts, this is a relatively |
| 1:30.9 | minor issue as of Friday morning. |
| 1:33.5 | He's really showing no ill effects from the hamate surgery that he had in February, right? |
| 1:38.4 | The barrel and heart hit rates are right in line with 2025. |
| 1:42.1 | So I think the start of the season overall has gone about as well as we could |
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