Freddie Freeman to the IL & Our April Breakout Pitchers Draft
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a mishap that landed Freddie Freeman on the IL, a closer change in Pittsburgh with the demotion of David Bednar, a few heavily added players in ottoneu ahead of the weekend with Niv Shah, and their picks for an on-air, five-round pitcher breakout draft featuring several players that may be available in shallow leagues.
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Rundown
2:16 Freddie Freeman to the IL
5:40 David Bednar to Triple-A; Dennis Santana to Close in Pittsburgh?
9:37 Camilo Doval Still the Fallback in San Francisco
14:15 Odds & Ends: Zach Neto, Nestor Cortes Jr., Jordan Lawlar & Angel Genao
18:14 Niv Shah Joins the Show! (The Philly Dog, Ottoneu Adds & Six Picks Roster Rates)
35:39 Eno's Friday Draft: Late-Round Pitchers/Shallow League Waiver Draft
55:07 Tomoyuki Sugano: Underrated by Projections?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, April 4th, Derek Van Riper, Enoseres, here with you. |
| 0:20.9 | Happy Friday, everybody. |
| 0:22.9 | On this episode, we'll have our usual Friday news and notes. |
| 0:26.6 | We've got a closer demotion in Pittsburgh to talk about. |
| 0:30.0 | We have rehab assignments for players, |
| 0:32.6 | some minor league injuries and updates to pass along as well. |
| 0:35.7 | We've got a new segment we're introducing this season. |
| 0:39.3 | Thanks to the culinary experts at Nationals Park, we have something called Taste of the Majors |
| 0:46.2 | with our senior hot dog correspondent and out of new founder, Niv Shaw. |
| 0:51.4 | That'll be a little bit later on in the show, so we're looking forward to that. |
| 0:54.6 | Eno set up a pitcher draft for us. We're going to look at some pitchers under 50% rostered on Yahoo, |
| 1:00.1 | fewer than 25 career major league starts and draft a group of them each. See how we do in there. |
| 1:04.8 | We'll fold in some waiver wire targets over the course of this episode as well. |
| 1:09.8 | Before we get into the meat of today's rundown, well, that's like 15 minutes from now when Niv gets here with the hot dog segments. The actual meat. The literal meat. I do want to remind everyone, we have a listener survey out there. Please click the link in the show description. You listen to us. We want to hear from you. We're asking you to fill out a quick survey about you and your podcast listening habits. Help us serve you |
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