Four Intriguing Players for a Round of Trade, Hold, or Extend
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Would you trade, hold, or extend Nick Kurtz right now? CJ Abrams? Ben Rice? The answers might surprise you.
Eno, Jed, and DVR break down all three in their favorite new game, "Trade, Hold, or Extend," then shift to two of baseball's hottest prospects: A.J. Ewing, who made a splash in his MLB debut for the Mets on Tuesday, and Henry Bolte, the Athletics outfielder just called up from Triple-A.
Rundown:
2:02 A.J. Ewing Debuts for the Mets
5:45 Henry Bolte Gets the Call
9:47 Skipping Rehab Assignments: Christian Yelich Activated From IL
17:29 CJ Abrams' Future in D.C.
29:49 Is There a Path to an Extension for Ben Rice?
37:06 William Contreras' Long-Term Outlook
45:42 A Nick Kurtz Extension?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, we play a fun game of trade, hold, or extend. |
| 0:04.7 | Who are you holding? Ben Rice? You trading C.J. Abrams? What you got? |
| 0:09.5 | And how much money would it take to actually extend Nick Kurtz? Let's go. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to Rates barrels. It's Wednesday, May 13th. Derek Ben Ryper, you know Sarah's Jed Lowry here with you on this episode. |
| 0:30.0 | We play a new game. It is basically trade, extend, or hold. |
| 0:35.6 | We're going to talk about four position players, all kind of in different positions in their respective careers, all possible extension candidates, maybe possible trade candidates in some cases or guys that you can just sort of ride it out with. We'll put on our GM hats and quarter zips and break that down here in just a little bit. Get some baseball news you should know up top. |
| 0:54.5 | A few promotions, players coming back from injury to discuss as well before we get into that, Jed. |
| 1:00.9 | Happy Wednesday. |
| 1:01.7 | How's it going for you? |
| 1:02.8 | I'm doing great guys. |
| 1:04.2 | Always good to be back with you. |
| 1:06.6 | Eno, how you doing? |
| 1:08.4 | Good. |
| 1:08.7 | I just wanted to give a shout out to my mom for finishing the Sedona 125. |
| 1:14.7 | Ran 125 miles and 60 hours straight. |
| 1:19.4 | No dirt naps. |
| 1:21.3 | Just a little bit of hallucinations. |
| 1:25.5 | I think your mom ran more in those 60 hours than I've run in the last three years combined, |
| 1:32.0 | which is a really bad sign for me. |
| 1:34.5 | So it's time to clean it up a little bit. |
| 1:38.4 | I might take that a step further. |
| 1:40.1 | I might say in my lifetime, I'm not sure I've run 120. |
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