Mid-Summer Prospecting & Playing Time Winners & Losers After the Trade Deadline
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the difficulty of trading for top-end prospects -- in fantasy and reality -- and whether we should pay extra attention to the players on the move despite the likelihood that they're not top-100 prospects at the time they are traded. Plus, they look at opportunities for Jackson Holliday and Coby Mayo in Baltimore, changes to a few depth charts coming out of the Trade Deadline, and Hayden Birdsong's return to the rotation for the Giants with Alex Cobb traded to Cleveland.
Rundown
2:17 Should We Care More About the Prospects Traded at the Deadline?
9:47 The Arc of Jasson Dominguez’s Prospect Ranking
13:25 Did the Padres ‘Hack’ Age-to-Level Models?
19:50 Any Intriguing Prospects That Entered Your Radar This Summer?
25:32 Jackson Holliday & Coby Mayo Promoted This Week
37:19 The Rays’ Depth Chart is Still a Cluster
47:44 Will Miguel Vargas Make a Fantasy Impact with the White Sox?
55:51 Kyle Stowers & the Miami Opportunity Machine
1:05:59 Hayden Birdsong & Marco Luciano Stock Up?
Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris
Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper
e-mail: ratesandbarrels@gmail.com
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe
Join us on Thursdays at 1p ET/10a PT for our livestream episodes!
Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels
Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, August 2nd. |
| 0:14.1 | Derek Finwright, for Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:16.8 | We take a look at depth charts coming out of the trade deadline teams that move players, created some opportunities for new ones. |
| 0:23.8 | It's kind of an extended version of our weekend waiver preview, looking for hidden sources of value or direct sources of value for guys that simply got traded into more playing time. |
| 0:33.6 | We got a few of those to get to today as well. |
| 0:36.5 | And we have a project prospect broad question |
| 0:39.6 | to get to as we get rolling here in just a few minutes. If you have not joined the Discord yet, |
| 0:45.4 | that is the best place to send questions for the show. You can do that using the link in the show |
| 0:49.0 | description. You know, how's it going for you on this Friday morning? It's good. Going to see Deadpool tonight. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm going to the last few days of an art exhibit at SFMOMA that is the art of noise, I think it is, but it's music. |
| 1:07.2 | It's like music art, band art, like, you know, like posters and actually some |
| 1:13.4 | audio stuff. So I'm going with my dad who's been going to concerts for, I don't know, |
| 1:20.5 | 70 years, 60 years. Are there any podcasts featured at this exhibit? |
| 1:27.2 | Well, I'll see. |
| 1:27.8 | I'll make a case for rates and barrels up there. |
| 1:30.6 | We could put the audio birthday card I made for you a few years ago. |
| 1:34.6 | That was real art. |
| 1:36.7 | That was amazing. |
| 1:37.8 | We had the beer cap. |
| 1:39.0 | It was a nice graphic made by our graphics team for an article. |
| 1:43.4 | I think it was an article that you wrote or was article about that. |
| 1:45.6 | That's right, with me and the beer caps. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.