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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Jordan Westburg Gets the Call & Checking In on Second-Year Hitters

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the promotion of Jordan Westburg and expectations for his offensive performance throughout the second half of the season, the 2023 success of Braxton Garrett, and several second-year bats. 


Rundown

4:24 Jordan Westburg Gets the Call to Baltimore

12:39 Would You Rather? (Westburg Edition)

19:17 Concerns About Tim Anderson's Shoulder

22:39 Braxton Garrett's Improved K% and BB%

31:26 Another Atlanta Rotation Flip-Flop?

36:42 Julio Rodríguez: Still a First-Rounder for Second-Half Drafts?

43:05 Bobby Witt Jr.: More AVG + OBP Coming Soon?

47:10 Michael Harris II: Getting Back on Track

49:21 Corbin Carroll: Top-10 Overall Player?

53:29 Adley Rutschman & Gunnar Henderson

59:14 Josh Jung: Everything Is Better

1:04:30 Spencer Torkelson: Big Second Half Coming?

1:08:09 A Pod Divided! CJ Abrams' Outlook

1:11:56 Shea Langeliers: Better Than Surface Numbers Suggest?

1:14:38 Nick Pratto: Some Good News in KC?


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, June 26th.

0:18.0

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode.

0:20.7

We have another promotion to discuss as Jordan Westberg is joining the Orioles. June 26th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode.

0:24.9

We have another promotion to discuss as Jordan Westberg is joining the Orioles.

0:30.3

Injury news from the Marlins in their rotation, another switcheroo in the Atlanta rotation.

0:38.9

And then our main topic today, we're going to dig into some second year hitters to see what direction those players are going as they get more exposure to big league pitching. You know, as we get started, you were telling me about some biodome thing

0:43.8

you were in this weekend? What was that all about? Yeah, I have a friend who basically shares my

0:48.7

birthday, he's the day before, and we've known each other for a really long time. And we're also

0:52.8

poor planners. We do a really long time. And we're also poor planners.

0:55.7

We do a bad job planning.

0:59.2

So we realized it was our birthday weekend.

1:00.2

We hadn't planned anything. So we just threw some camping gear in the back of the car and went north and had some very loose plans.

1:07.7

There's a site called Hip Camp where we were searching for some campgrounds that were available in the short term.

1:15.1

And we found a geodesic dome, which is like just, you could probably sleep like eight to ten people in it,

1:21.8

but it's a sort of a semi-large dome with a wooden floor that's raised up off the ground and it was in

1:30.7

bellinas so we are when we opened our windows to our dome we had this wide view of the pond

1:37.1

that was on the property and then the bay so we were just looking right out of the ocean and if you go

1:43.0

we walked down to there to the beach I had some beers on the beach.

1:47.3

You're basically looking at San Francisco, but you can't see the Golden Gay Bridge.

1:52.7

So it's like sort of, you know, right around Point Reyes.

1:57.1

And we had a good time.

1:58.5

It was fun, you know, getting to know a little town and, you know,

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