Jordan Montgomery, Nola v. Snell, & October Injury Updates
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the recent success of Jordan Montgomery and changes he's made since leaving the Yankees via trade in 2021, Aaron Nola v. Blake Snell as real-life free agents and for 2024 fantasy value, and several offseason injury updates including shoulder surgery for Brandon Woodruff and Kyle Wright, knee surgery for Byron Buxton, turf toe surgery for Jazz Chisholm Jr., and more.
Rundown
1:40 Jordan Montgomery 3.0 & Future Outlook
7:53 An Intriguing Market for Free Agent Pitchers Awaits
11:05 Clayton Kershaw's Health
13:08 Shoulder Capsule Surgery for Brandon Woodruff & Kyle Wright
18:40 Justin Verlander is a Top-___ Pitcher in 2024
24:29 Nathan Eovaldi's Postseason Success; Challenging Projection
29:34 Blake Snell v. Aaron Nola
41:25 'Sitting Slow': How the Astros Hit Sonny Gray?
44:31 Byron Buxton Undergoes Knee Surgery
52:05 Kim Ng Chooses to Part Ways with Marlins
58:36 Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s Turf Toe Surgery; Chisholm v. Varsho in 2024?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Monday, October 16th. Derek Finreiber here with |
| 0:19.4 | Enoseres. A big thank you |
| 0:20.9 | to Chris Welsh and Al Malkier for all |
| 0:22.9 | their work not only throughout the season, but |
| 0:24.8 | also during my last stretch of paternity leave. |
| 0:28.0 | It's good to be back. It's good to have you back. |
| 0:33.2 | Well, it's fun. It's a fun time to come back |
| 0:36.1 | in the middle of the postseason. You know, after a fantasy baseball season has ended. It's a fun time to come back in the middle of the postseason. |
| 0:37.8 | You know, after a fantasy baseball season has ended, I'll pass along my congratulations to anyone who did well in their leagues this year. |
| 0:45.1 | Hopefully, we had some role in that, either just by entertaining people or by actually helping. |
| 0:50.9 | I wonder how much I can actually be helping someone if I'm not winning a bunch of |
| 0:55.5 | my leagues myself, but it sounds like based on some stuff I saw on Twitter, based on a few |
| 0:59.8 | emails that there were a few league winners. Based on some beer deliveries. Yes, thank you very |
| 1:04.5 | much for the beer for helping you win. I love that. That is a nice, that's a nice perk to |
| 1:10.7 | say the least. |
| 1:11.6 | But I figure we can start with some playoff thoughts because everybody's watching the postseason. |
| 1:14.9 | Everybody's excited about what's going on there. |
| 1:16.5 | We'll dig into some offseason news. |
| 1:19.1 | There's always the surgery news dump that occurs after a team's season is over. |
| 1:24.8 | So as each playoff team gets eliminated, you find out just how hurt someone was because they invariably undergo a procedure. |
| 1:34.0 | Many of them sort of known injuries, but a few surprises mixed in there. But some playoff thoughts. |
| 1:40.2 | I wanted to get into Jordan Montgomery for a bit, pitched really well in game one of the ALCS on Sunday night. |
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