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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

J-Rod to the First Round, Barrel Rate Risers & Other Big Movers

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the increasing likelihood of Julio Rodríguez becoming 2023 first-round pick, other movers into the early rounds, recent barrel rate surgers -- including Ryan Mountcastle and Dylan Carlson -- the unique challenge of trading for currently injured players, and a handful of mailbag questions.


Rundown

-- Maybe the Pitch Clock Will Reduce Pitcher Injuries?

-- Julio Rodríguez: First-Round Bound in 2023?

-- A Very Brief J-Rod v. Acuña Comparison

-- Ryan Mountcastle: DVR's Perpetual Skepticism, BB/K Laggards

-- Real-Life Replaceable Power?

-- Dylan Carlson's Adjustments

-- Yordan Alvarez & Other Big Movers

-- A Significant Jump for Jazz Chisholm Jr.?

-- Eno Turns the Tables

-- Trading for Injured Players

-- Making Sense of Triston McKenzie


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, July 5th. Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this Tuesday. We dig into

0:23.3

Julio Rodriguez and some barrel rate surgers. Eno had a great piece that went up before the weekend.

0:29.5

Rodriguez among the pieces players featured in that piece. Easy for me to say. We'll get to

0:35.4

several of those players. Talk about some other big movers among hitters who I think are going to be going much earlier in 2023 drafts or in the midseason drafts. I know some people have set those up on the side. That's where those exist. They live in the side space. Fan tracks has them, but you got to set them up yourself and join them as private leagues. So good news if you're looking for them, they exist.

0:55.7

Bad news is they're hard to find on a big, big scale.

0:58.9

We'll talk about a few others topics, including trading for injured players,

1:02.6

the challenges that come from trying to deal for someone like Bryce Harper right now.

1:06.6

And maybe in hopes of having him back at the end of the season as someone that can make a very good team

1:11.4

and even better one, especially in head-to-head formats.

1:14.8

And we'll get to some recent risers, including Brian Beaux, who's going to come up to the Red Sox,

1:20.1

Harold Ramirez, who's playing more for the raise, and the always confusing Tristan McKenzie.

1:25.6

Eno, how was your long weekend?

1:27.4

It was great. It was great. It was exactly what I needed.

1:31.6

Because of COVID, I wasn't able to see my dad for Father's Day.

1:34.9

So he came down.

1:37.0

We grilled, as we discussed at the table, it is practically a requirement to grill on the fourth, I believe.

1:45.2

So we grilled, as was our duty.

1:48.9

And then we watched a stupid movie.

1:50.5

We watched Independence Day 2, which was awful.

1:55.3

Yeah, I had no idea they made the movie, but as soon as you told me that's what you did,

1:59.9

I just thought that

2:01.0

probably wasn't good it was still kind of funny for us to sit around and laugh i mean there's just a

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