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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Future Outlooks for Five Underperforming Hitters

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

DVR and Jed discuss Patrick Bailey's improbable inside-the-park walk-off homer against the Phillies, and Manny Machado's path to 3,000 hits after he reached 2,000 earlier this week, before digging into five underperforming hitters (all under 26) in search of rebounds in the second half or beyond.


Rundown

0:50 An Unusual Finish in San Francisco

4:15 Manny Machado's Path to 3,000 Hits

10:25 JJ Wetherholt & Moving Defensively

16:06 Royce Lewis' 2025 Struggles Due to Injury?

23:39 Jordan Walker: What's Behind Rising K%?

31:40 Michael Harris II: Contact Quality Dip

40:59 Oneil Cruz: Massive Second Half On Tap?

46:14 Francisco Alvarez: Caught Between Approaches?

53:18 Does the All-Star Game Need a Tweak?


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Host: Derek VanRiper

With: Jed Lowrie

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels, presented by E-Trade from Morgan Stanley, Derek Van Rhyber.

0:16.1

Jed Lowry here with you.

0:17.2

It is Wednesday, July 9th.

0:18.8

On this episode, we are going to discuss some struggling

0:22.0

young hitters, young as in like under 26 was the cutoff. Some guys that we think could still have

0:27.9

very bright futures, despite 2025s that haven't gone well, even multi-year stretches that haven't gone

0:33.6

quite to script. Got a few baseball news items to talk about today, including one of the most unusual endings

0:42.0

to a game I've ever seen.

0:44.6

I mean, let's just go right into that.

0:46.3

If you're watching on YouTube, you can actually check this one out here as we go.

0:51.0

But the quick setup here, the Phillies, visiting the Giants. And Oracle Park,

0:55.6

I didn't realize, has been a house of horrors for the Phillies lately. I think they've

0:59.6

lost 18 of their last 21 in San Francisco, according to Matt Gelb. I mean, that's a remarkably

1:06.3

rough stretch. And they're up 3-1 in the ninth inning. Jordan Romano trying to close it out. There's one out. Patrick Bailey's up. Two runners on base. This is a pretty good spot if you're a Philly's fan. You're sitting there. You're like, yeah, we got this. Everything's good. Jordan Romano hasn't been great, but Patrick Bailey's having a down year. He's going to get through this, no problem. And then this happens.

1:28.9

Now, off the bat, I think this is going to be a home run because it was crushed.

1:33.3

It's the top of the wall, a top of that right field, that right center brick wall at Oracle,

1:40.0

and then it does a classic cart path roll all the way down the warning track towards

1:46.3

left field.

1:47.4

And Patrick Bailey clears the bases with a walkoff inside the park home run.

1:52.7

I mean, Jed, you've seen some things on a baseball dime.

1:56.8

Have you seen a game end quite like that before?

2:00.1

I have not. And we were just talking before we hit record, and that was the first time I had seen it.

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