Long-Term Outlooks for Buehler & Tatis, Late Promotions & Oneil Cruz Feats of Strength
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the long-term outlook for Walker Buehler following his second career Tommy John surgery, Fernando Tatis Jr.'s decision to undergo shoulder surgery while serving his suspension, a few approach similarities between Bo Bichette and Michael Harris II, late-season promotions thanks to new CBA rules, Oneil Cruz's Statcast-breaking feat, and much more.
Rundown
-- Walker Buehler Undergoes a Second Tommy John Surgery
-- Fernando Tatis Jr. Set for Shoulder Surgery
-- Michael Harris II and Similarities to Bo Bichette's Profile?
-- Cade Cavalli & Late Promotions
-- Oneil Cruz Sets New Max Exit Velocity Record
-- Has Amed Rosario Finally Reached His Ceiling?
-- What's Next for Yoán Moncada?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, August 24th. |
| 0:19.2 | Derek Van Riper here with Ino Seris. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm back from my little vacation. |
| 0:23.7 | It was, you know, a vacation from the norm. |
| 0:26.1 | I didn't go anywhere far away. |
| 0:28.4 | People came to me. |
| 0:29.2 | Staycation. |
| 0:30.4 | Yeah, staycation with visitors, which actually was pretty great. |
| 0:33.8 | So happy to be back and talking baseball with you, Eno, on this episode. We've got a couple |
| 0:39.4 | big news things we're going to talk about. Walker Bueller actually underwent a second Tommy |
| 0:44.1 | John surgery. So we'll talk about the long-term implications of that. We learn that Fernando |
| 0:49.7 | Tatis Jr. is going to have the shoulder surgery that we wondered about for a long time while |
| 0:55.6 | he serves his suspension. |
| 0:57.3 | So some major changes there, it looks like Cade Cavali is going to come up and debut with |
| 1:02.5 | the Nationals by the end of this week. |
| 1:04.6 | And we might see a few other top prospects get chances here at the end of the season due to |
| 1:09.8 | a rule change in the collective |
| 1:11.2 | bargaining agreement that's kind of interesting. |
| 1:13.5 | O'Neo Cruz broke stat cast again, so we'll talk about that. |
| 1:16.4 | We'll talk about some difficult stretch run decisions that are starting to pop up. |
| 1:20.3 | Of course, new pitchers and new players emerging in the pool each and every week and trying |
| 1:25.5 | to figure out how much we trust those guys against some of the |
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