Fernando Tatis Jr. is Playing Second Base?!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR look back on an exciting and unexpected weekend with two Padres walk-off home runs, as well as a surprising position switch with Fernando Tatis Jr. moving to second base -- for two games at least. Later, the guys welcome Owen Riley and Maxfield Lane of Down on the Farm to discuss some of their favorite underrated prospects.
Rundown:
1:16 Best Thing You Saw This Weekend
2:57 Fernando Tatis Jr. Starts Two Games at Second Base
5:45 Nick Pivetta’s Early Exit
10:17 Tatsuya Imai Returns to Houston
14:53 More Astros Injuries
17:34 Christian Yelich Suffers Hamstring Injury
20:06 Is DVR Worried About Trevor Megill?
22:36 From Division III to Oyster Analytics & Down on the Farm
25:34 Key Indicators When Analyzing Prospects
29:06 Spotting for Trends
32:32 The White Sox Promote Noah Schultz
37:09 Pedro Ramirez Ascending the Cubs’ System
42:18 Polarizing Prospect: Blaze Jordan
45:04 One More Deep Sleeper: The Rays’ Jadher Areinamo
47:33 Angel Martínez & Jakob Junis Get the Love This Weekend
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With: Owen Riley & Maxfield Lane
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, we discuss a busy weekend around baseball, including appearances at second base from Fernando Tatis Jr. |
| 0:07.7 | Plus, we go down on the farm with Owen Riley and Maxfield Lane. |
| 0:12.1 | Let's go. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Monday, April 13th. |
| 0:29.7 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris with one key question for Eno. |
| 0:32.2 | Eno, did you get your taxes done yet? |
| 0:34.7 | Got them done! |
| 0:38.2 | That's awesome. It's a good feeling every spring, dude. That's awesome. |
| 0:40.4 | It's a good feeling every spring, dude. |
| 0:43.5 | It's like the biggest house cleaning. |
| 0:45.1 | It's like taking a big old dump. |
| 0:51.8 | I got mine done, didn't feel quite like that. |
| 0:58.0 | Did feel like I took an L, knew it was coming, didn't feel like a bodily function necessarily. |
| 1:02.2 | But I did use that momentum to get some more stuff done around the house this weekend. |
| 1:06.8 | But that wasn't the best thing that I did or the best thing that I saw. |
| 1:08.8 | I want to ask you, what's the best thing you saw? |
| 1:09.6 | You were on the road. |
| 1:11.1 | You saw some live baseball. And you saw some exciting live baseball. Yeah, consecutive walk-offs in San Diego. It was a great |
| 1:19.9 | weekend in San Diego with Xander Bogart's walk-off Grand Slam, followed the next night by another extra innings walk-off, and this time |
| 1:30.8 | with the entire crowd yelling, holy sheets, holy sheets, and then Gavin Sheets, you know, goes Placata |
| 1:39.4 | and wins the game. So, you know, amazingly, I think the Padres |
| 1:44.4 | have the third best record, |
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