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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Ohtani's Return to Pitching & Pitchers We've Overlooked In 2025

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Shohei Ohtani's first outing back in the big leagues after having Tommy John surgery in September of 2023, and the return of Logan Gilbert from a flexor strain, before acknowledging several pitchers who have received very little attention on the show over the course of the season.


Rundown

0:41 Shohei Ohtani's First Start on the Mound Since 2023

8:43 Logan Gilbert: 10 Strikeouts in Return from IL

11:26 Carlos Rodón Is Healthy and Pitching Great

17:31 Checking In: DVR's Extreme Risk Pitcher Build

23:05 Robbie Ray & Logan Webb

28:38 Jack Flaherty's Quietly Productive Season

32:30 Is Brayan Bello Unlocking A New Level with His Cutter?

34:12 José Soriano's Underwhelming Results Despite Electric Velo

36:48 What Happened to Bailey Ober?


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Terms and conditions apply 18 plus be gambleware.org. Welcome to rates of barrels. It is Tuesday, June 17th. Derek and Riper, Eno Ceres, here with you. Today, we are talking about a few under-discussed pitchers after we get to a few noteworthy returns, maybe one of the most

0:56.6

over-discussed players. But for good reason, Shohei Otani returned as a pitcher on Monday night

1:01.8

against the Padres. We also got Logan Gilbert back, 10Ks and his first start off the aisle.

1:07.3

So certainly some good things there. So news first, you know, show hey Otani. Start number

1:13.9

one. It was only one inning. The Dodgers did not deceive us in this instance. I looked at the

1:19.7

numbers, a 120 stuff plus overall, a 90 location plus, 110 pitching plus. That location number is really

1:26.3

not that surprising, given the duration of his layoff,

1:30.6

and considering that without the benefit of a rehab assignment,

1:35.6

facing MLB hitters live in-game action is actually a pretty tough way to get back to pitching.

1:42.9

Yeah, I mean, normally one of the things you have to

1:46.5

overcome is fear that it's not fixed or fear that you're going to blow it out. And so, you know,

1:55.1

just getting over that hump is a big deal. Maybe they felt he'd already been over that hump,

1:59.1

but if he was effectively rehabbing

2:00.9

in front of our eyes, then that takes quite a bit of intestinal fortitude, especially when,

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