Kristian Campbell's Demotion & Weekend Waiver Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Red Sox's decision to demote Kristian Campbell to Triple-A, a benches-clearing sequence between the Padres and Dodgers on Thursday hours after the Dodgers denied ICE access to the Dodger Stadium parking lot, and fan ejections during a doubleheader between the Pirates and Tigers, before looking ahead at a few players to consider as waiver-wire pickups this weekend.
Rundown
2:43 Kristian Campbell: Headed to Triple-A
11:14 Padres-Dodgers Finds a New Level
17:01 The Bigger Story: Dodgers Deny ICE Access to Stadium Parking Lots
22:37 Multiple Ejections at Comerica During Pirates-Tigers Doubleheader
25:35 Lars Nootbaar and Tough Shallow League Decisions
31:45 Most Added & Dropped Hitters (6.20.25, CBS)
40:21 Parker Meadows' Falling Projections
46:17 Michael Harris II: Projections Holding Up Despite Disappointing First Half
51:51 Jo Adell: Continues to Hold K% Improvement
54:44 Most Added & Dropped Pitchers (6.20.25, CBS)
1:03:29 Essential for Left-Handed Starters to Get Grounders in Houston?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Daryls. |
| 0:12.4 | It's Friday, June 20th, Derek Van Riper, Marino-Seres, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:17.4 | We have a top prospect going down to the miners Christian Campbell headed |
| 0:21.3 | to AAA. We'll talk about that decision from the Red Sox and what might be next for one of |
| 0:27.3 | the game's most exciting young players after a difficult first foray into the big leagues. |
| 0:32.3 | Not the first player to have that, certainly won't be the last. |
| 0:35.4 | The Dodgers Padres rivalry has found another level of intensity. |
| 0:39.0 | A lot of players getting hit by pitches this week, including one that injured Fernando |
| 0:43.8 | Tatis Jr. on Thursday night, so we'll dig into what's happening there. |
| 0:48.6 | And we've got our usual Friday segment digging into some weekend waiver wire preview. Looking ahead, some of the names |
| 0:55.8 | we might be thinking about adding and dropping from rosters with weekly deadlines. Eno, how's it |
| 1:00.7 | going for you on this Friday? It's good. Last night was fun at the Adeno meetup with Niv Shaw. |
| 1:07.3 | We discussed hot dogs and baseball and beer at Bear Bottle. It was a good time. |
| 1:13.6 | The game was interesting. The Giants won a close one where Devers was instrumental. |
| 1:20.0 | And the fans are just super welcoming to him. It's huge ovations every time he comes to the plate. |
| 1:26.7 | So it's kind of a fun time between that and all the gentlemen who lead chants. It's huge ovations every time he comes to the plate. So it's kind of a fun time between that and all the gentlemen who lead chants. |
| 1:31.0 | It's kind of a fun time of Giants games right now. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, it's good to have that. |
| 1:35.3 | Hot dogs consumed by you or only hot dogs consumed by Niv? |
| 1:40.7 | Actually, no hot dogs actually consumed just discussed. |
| 1:48.5 | He had the crab sandwich. it's a good choice I've heard good things I didn't get it when I was there had I had nachos at the the public house is |
| 1:54.4 | still called that yeah it's not the public house anymore it's 58 social and the beer menu is worse and the food menu is worse. |
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