Hot Finishes, Early Starts
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Eno and Welsh discuss the posting of Shōta Imanaga, Clayton Kershaw worries, Altuve vs Jazz in 2024, a prospect to get now and more.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:50.5 | It is Rates and Beryls. |
| 0:52.0 | I am Chris Welsh, that is Enosaris, and there is no, because DVR is out for the month, but he will be back. And just a friendly reminder that rates and barrels is switching up. This is kind of the last week of the normalcy, if you will. We just did our season finale of Project Prospect. So thanks to everybody that has tuned along with that. But next week, I will be back on Monday with Ena. We'll be doing our shows with little prospect nuggets. And Al will be there on Friday. You know, we got a lot to talk about. We've got a posting. We have got some injury worries. We got some prospect notes. We got a whole bunch of stuff to get to, and we can |
| 1:28.4 | kick the show right off with the posting of what may be a big time pitcher. Shoto Amanaga is |
| 1:35.8 | going to be posted to the MLB, joining what is now going to be Yashinobo Yamamoto and |
| 1:42.8 | Zhonghu Lee as the big posting international guys. And this is a 30-year-old |
| 1:47.9 | pitcher who has had an interesting career, has got an interesting arsenal, and has had some |
| 1:53.8 | really great results. So curious at your take on Amonaga overall and then what we might see as far |
| 2:00.5 | as like team. I think I've already seen like seven teams that are linked to it. But I just don't know if it's going to be on Amonaga overall, and then what we might see as far as, like, |
| 2:00.9 | I think I've already seen like seven teams that are linked to it, |
| 2:03.7 | but I just don't know if it's going to be to the same degree |
| 2:06.8 | as we are going to see with Yamamoto with the five-year difference |
| 2:10.7 | between these two pitchers. |
| 2:12.9 | Yeah, it's pretty interesting because Shota Imalaga |
| 2:16.7 | beat out Yoshi Yamamoto by Stuff Plus in the WBC. |
| 2:28.3 | So the overall stuff plus for starting pitchers, number one was Shoto Imanaga. |
| 2:33.5 | Number two, he goes Yoshinovo Yamamoto. Number four was Ureis. Darvish was five. Alcantor was six. |
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