Ohtani's Shoulder Surgery, Roki Sasaki's Pitch Mix & An Early Offseason Acuña Update
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR are back from First Pitch Arizona with a flurry of early offseason updates including a shoulder procedure for Shohei Ohtani, a closer look at Roki Sasaki's pitch mix after his 2024 campaign in NPB, expectations that Ronald Acuña Jr. and Spencer Strider won't be ready for Opening Day in 2025, plus a trade, a new contract for Michael Wacha, and the path for Jeff Hoffman to return to a starting role once he finds a new club in free agency.
Rundown
2:01 Shohei Ohtani's Undergoes Left Shoulder (Labrum) Surgery
12:17 How Many Players Have Old Injuries to Manage?
21:50 Roki Sasaki Nearing a Decision for 2025 Plans
30:57 Spencer Strider & Ronald Acuña Jr.: Unlikely for Opening Day
38:00 Jorge Soler Traded to Anaheim for Jorge Soler
49:08 David Fry Undergoes UCL Surgery
51:16 Extensions, Options & Opt-Outs
1:11:14 Willson Contreras to First Base & Position/Role Change Rumblings
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.0 | It's Friday, November 8th. |
| 0:18.0 | Derek the Riper, Inoceris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:20.8 | There is a lot of baseball-related news to get to. |
| 0:24.6 | We have an update on Shohei Otani. |
| 0:27.7 | We may have an update soon on Roki Sasaki, whose status as an international free agent |
| 0:32.8 | should be determined in the relative near future. |
| 0:35.1 | So Ino wrote about Sasaki's arsenal. |
| 0:37.3 | We'll talk about that and the possible impact he'll have if he does, in fact, come over to Major League Baseball at some point this off season. |
| 0:44.6 | We got updates on Spencer Strider and Ronald Acuna Jr. |
| 0:48.0 | We got a trade. |
| 0:49.6 | We had a surgery for David Fry that we were already worried about. |
| 0:53.1 | It's also option season. |
| 0:55.1 | There are qualifying offers. |
| 0:56.7 | There are guys changing positions. |
| 0:58.4 | Some real, some hypothetical. |
| 1:01.0 | We're going to talk about all the implications of that over the course of the next hour or so. |
| 1:06.3 | You know, how are you feeling coming off of first pitch Arizona? |
| 1:08.8 | Good. |
| 1:09.1 | It's always like a marker. |
| 1:11.9 | It's so crazy because sometimes it's like the day after the last day of the World Series, but it's always a marker for, |
| 1:16.2 | okay, that's over. Now focus on next year. It's such a thing in baseball where like the, it's such |
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