Hitters We've Overlooked In 2025
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss another round of news including Trevor May's induction in the Reading Baseball Hall of Fame, Tommy John surgery for Jackson Jobe, and a rotator cuff injury for Cole Ragans. Plus, they discuss the 'Urgency Index' of Trade Deadline needs, before looking at several hitters they've rarely discussed this season including Jeremy Peña, Hunter Goodman, and Ozzie Albies.
Rundown
1:19 Congrats, Trevor!
2:26 Jackson Jobe: Will Undergo Tommy John Surgery
10:44 Cole Ragans: Returns to IL w/Rotator Cuff Strain
13:54 Aaron Civale: Requests a Trade Out of Milwaukee
16:26 The 'Urgency Index 1.0' Teams In Need of Impact Starting Pitchers
21:31 Thinking Outside the Box For Another SP on the Trade Market
27:15 Kodai Senga: IL-Bound w/Hamstring Injury
29:46 Listener Submissions: Hitters We've Largely Ignored
47:33 Isaac Paredes: Back to Tapping Into Pull Power
51:28 Ozzie Albies: Where Did the Power Go?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:13.2 | It's Thursday, June 12. |
| 0:14.6 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:18.5 | We have underappreciated hitters. We're going to talk about some players that |
| 0:23.0 | have been rarely mentioned on the pod over the last two and a half months or so, some good, |
| 0:28.8 | some bad, trying to uncover the why behind the improvement or the decline. Get some baseball news |
| 0:35.1 | you should know, and there's an urgency index piece that Eno wrote |
| 0:38.1 | along with Tim Britton and Aaron Gleman on the athletic today, so we'll dig into that as we |
| 0:42.5 | try and our ongoing effort is to find fits trade-wise. We want to be matchmakers. We want |
| 0:47.8 | people to be happy, right? We can't make people happy in love, but we can make people happy |
| 0:52.4 | in baseball. At least that is our general goal. |
| 0:55.8 | Matchmakers is our other option. Are there backup option? No, I don't think we could do. |
| 1:01.7 | No, no, I can take care of myself barely. I learned that over the course of my life. I can just |
| 1:08.8 | barely find that for me, but I can't help other people in that regard. So a lot of ground to cover. Baseball news you should know, as you may notice, there's no Trevor May here today because Trevor May is in Redding, Pennsylvania, being inducted into Redding's Hall of Fame. So congrats to our friend for that. He's going in with Darren Ruff, |
| 1:27.7 | a name you |
| 1:28.2 | might remember from |
| 1:28.9 | the Phillies |
| 1:29.3 | organization a few years ago. Giant for a little while. So good, good things for Trevor and fun trip. I can imagine getting to Reading from Seattle is actually somewhat challenging. We got to get you into a Hall of Fame. I know. I'm the only person on this show, not in the Hall of Fame. |
| 1:28.8 | I got the only person on this show, not in a Hall of Fame. |
| 1:47.1 | I got the FSWA one. |
| 1:49.9 | That's a attainable goal for you. |
| 1:52.5 | I'm going to start beating the ground for that. |
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