In-Season Projections: Risers & Fallers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the D-backs' decision to recall Jordan Lawlar, Zach Eflin's importance for the Orioles' injury-plagued rotation, and the Rockies' decision to dismiss manager Bud Black, before looking at some of the biggest risers and fallers (among hitters) in initial 2025 projections v. rest-of-season projections with The BAT X.
Rundown
3:33 Jordan Lawlar: Recalled by D-backs; How Does He Fit Right Now?
8:52 Zach Eflin: Returns from the IL
12:59 The Rockies Fire Manager Bud Black
21:55 Projections Movers: Biggest Risers
28:22 Who Has Moved Their Projections Enough to Change Their Role?
34:50 Andrew Vaughn's Projection Has Improved Despite Tough Stretch?
44:26 Projections Movers: Biggest Fallers
52:57 Willy Adames: A Good Buy-Low Candidate?
57:15 Where the Money Went: Cade Horton & Intriguing, Affordable Bats
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl. It's Monday, May 12th. Derek Riper, Inoceris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:16.8 | We got some baseball news you should know. It has happened. Jordan Lawler has been recalled by the Diamondbacks. |
| 0:22.5 | We'll talk about his fit in that Arizona lineup. |
| 0:25.7 | Today we're going to take a look at some projections movers, |
| 0:28.1 | looking at the Bat X original projections for 2025 versus the rest of season ones that you could find on the pages of fan graphs here on the 12th of May. |
| 0:37.6 | We'll talk about some of the biggest movers in each direction and a few surprises along |
| 0:42.2 | the way. |
| 0:42.8 | Got a couple mailbag questions, and we'll get to where the money went this weekend in |
| 0:46.3 | our fantasy baseball leagues as well. |
| 0:48.9 | I think the question I have for you is the question that many of our listeners have. |
| 0:53.3 | Did your mom complete the race on time this |
| 0:56.7 | weekend? She did not. I'm super proud of her, though. She made 100 miles and she ran through two nights. |
| 1:03.3 | So basically somewhere around 60 hours of straight running and got to 100 miles. She said she was |
| 1:10.7 | hallucinating. She was seeing |
| 1:12.7 | dogs everywhere, even during the daytime, that no dogs were there. And so at the end, |
| 1:20.7 | there was a sort of cognitive impairment that sort of happens once you haven't slept for two days |
| 1:26.5 | and you've just been running where she |
| 1:29.0 | wasn't sure if the information she got was incorrect or if she understood it incorrectly but there |
| 1:33.6 | was a misunderstanding about when and where the next cutoff was and so she thought she was basically |
| 1:41.9 | done and sat down then found out that she'd had enough time to maybe |
| 1:45.1 | keep going. It would have been touch and go. There's a there's a sweeper, this person who runs at |
| 1:51.5 | the end and picks up all the cones. And if you can't stay ahead at the sweeper, then you're out. |
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