Is Julio Rodríguez an Adjustment Away?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Eno, DVR, and Jed discuss news and notes from around the league including injuries for Emmanuel Clase and Cristopher Sánchez and MLB's biggest three-team rivalries, before digging into the new-look Mariners' offense and Julio Rodriguez's slow start on the heels of a slight downturn at the plate in 2024. Rundown 4:20 MLB's Biggest Hate Triangle 9:17 Why Night Games on Getaway Day are Suboptimal 15:52 Astros Considering Cam Smith in Center Field? 20:13 The Mariners Hitters Are Changing (Related Reading from 'Leaky Barn': https://swingsandtakes.com/250421-the-mariners-offense-is-rolling) 25:51 Will Julio Rodríguez Click Again Soon? 31:28 Time to Make Another Adjustment on Pitches Away? 42:38 Does Closing Up Stance Help Slim Your Platoon Split? Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social e-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris With: Jed Lowrie Producer: Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3	Welcome to Rates and Burles. It's Wednesday, April 23rd.
0:46.7	Derek and Riper, Unoceris, Jed Lowry here with you on this episode.
0:50.3	We take a spin around the league at some baseball news you should know.
0:53.4	But then we're going to dig into the Mariners hitters.
0:58.9	Some things are changing with those bats in Seattle, and they're doing it despite a slow start from Julio Rodriguez.
1:00.3	We'll dig into some of the early struggles of Julio Rodriguez, which are probably connected
1:04.8	to a downturn in power that we saw from him a season ago.
1:09.1	We'll try to figure out if there's a way for him to make some adjustments and quickly get back on track here in 2025. So a lot of ground to cover today. Be sure to join our Discord. If you haven't done so already, you can do that with the link in the show description. A couple of injury related things to get to real quick off the top. We, with Cade Smith getting saves on consecutive days against the Yankees to begin
1:31.5	the week if something might be wrong with Emmanuel Class A.
1:34.0	And just before we started recording, Stephen Vote told reporters that Emmanuel Class A is
1:38.9	dealing with some shoulder discomfort coming off of his most recent appearance on Sunday.
1:43.8	Did play catch on Wednesday, so for now, no IL stint, but more of a day-to-day thing
1:48.6	that we're going to keep an eye on here in the next few days.
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