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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Is It Too Early to Worry About Underperforming Aces?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR break down the early-season struggles of lefties Garrett Crochet and Cole Ragans. Then they hit the mailbag to talk about the NL East leading Braves and White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami. They wrap up by looking at where the money went in fantasy leagues over the weekend.

Rundown:

3:30 Garrett Crochet Rebounded Sunday

10:12 Cole Ragans’ Rough Outing

16:40 Braves’ Hot Start

28:23 Mets’ Skid Hits 11

29:48 Munetaka Murakami Is Mashing

36:20 Matt McLain’s Offensive Woes

41:00 Jakob Marsee’s Slow Start

45:47 Daniel Palencia & Jhoan Duran Injuries

52:20 Noah Schultz Draws Big Bids

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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on Rates and Barrels, we wonder if it's too early to worry about a couple struggling aces,

0:05.7

and we wonder if the league may have been wrong about Munataka Murakami.

0:10.5

Let's go.

0:23.9

Welcome to Rates and Barrels to Monday, April 20th.

0:26.0

Derek Van Riper here with Eno Seris.

0:27.4

Eno, how is your weekend?

0:29.6

And more importantly, how are your ratios?

0:31.0

Okay.

0:33.9

I'm protecting them at all costs.

0:41.2

But it was a really fun weekend because I got to go to Bear Bottle on Friday and do the first tasting of the new Kayakers Cove, which has a fun little Easter egg on the label and is

0:50.1

even better than last year. You can believe it. It's so good.

0:54.5

Smelled so good.

0:56.2

I really enjoyed it.

0:57.8

So thanks to Lester Coga at Bearbottle

1:00.0

for doing that again.

1:00.9

And you can get Kayakers Cove

1:03.1

wherever you can get Bear Bottle beers.

1:05.6

They're distributing it widely.

1:07.8

Yeah, how far outside of the bay

1:10.2

does their distribution go? You might be able to find them in

1:13.9

San Diego and Fresno and Sacramento. I don't think you'll find them outside the state. I guess there

1:22.8

could be an outside chance. You could see them maybe at some place like the wandering tortoise in Phoenix. They always have a lot of bear bottle. But I would doubt it. Very nice. Well, yeah, shout at the Lester for brewing that again. It was delicious. I can't believe it's better this year. I mean, I can because they make awesome beers at bear bottle. But the Easter egg's great.

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