Jackson Holliday's Arrival, Ceddanne Rafaela's Early Struggles & Looking Ahead at Weekend Pickups
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss recent progress in the Ippei Mizuhara story, as Mizuhara is in the process of negotiating a guilty plea with federal prosecutors with evidence suggesting that Mizuhara may have stolen more than $4.5 million from Shohei Ohtani. Plus, they consider the arrival of Jackson Holliday and his 2024 comps before taking a look at several minor league injury updates, the early-season struggles of Ceddanne Rafaela, waiver-wire targets, and a few mailbag questions.
Rundown
2:07 Movement in the Ippei Mizuhara Case
5:25 Jackson Holliday Gets the Call to Baltimore; Debuts Wednesday
15:17 Spencer Arrighetti: Promoted by Astros to Fill Rotation Vacancy
18:16 Minor League Injury Updates: Junior Caminero, Jeferson Quero, Robert Gasser, River Ryan & Walker Jenkins
27:42 Ceddanne Rafaela's Ongoing Struggles at the Plate
37:22 Good News (Nick Pivetta), Bad News (Yoán Moncada)
43:13 Early Waiver Wire Outlook: Colton Cowser, Cody Bradford, Bryce Elder and José Soriano
55:30 Mailbag Questions: Pitching+, David Bednar's Hold on the Closer Role, and JP Sears
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| 0:27.9 | Okay. Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:50.2 | It's Thursday, April 11th. |
| 0:52.8 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoceris on this episode. |
| 0:55.9 | We have an update involving the Ipe Mizuhara story as it's become the former translator for Shohei Otani. |
| 1:02.9 | We've got our first 2024 installment of Project Prospect, which is no longer a full episode, but a portion of an episode or a segment, as we like to call it, in the podcast world. |
| 1:13.4 | We're also going to have a weekend waiver preview talking about a few players that might be trending their way onto rosters this weekend. |
| 1:19.5 | If not sooner, you might have some daily league opportunities to make moves for these players. |
| 1:23.9 | And we've got a few mailbag questions from our Discord to get to at the end of this episode as well. |
| 1:30.1 | If you're not in the Discord yet, grab the link to join that. |
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| 1:35.0 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Thursday? |
| 1:37.2 | Good, good. |
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