Opportunity in San Francisco, Struggling Pitching Prospects & Weekend Waiver Targets
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Ronel Blanco's sticky-stuff suspension, Austin Riley's quiet start and recent injury, another opportunity for Luis Matos in San Francisco, and the bullpen woes of the Cubs before digging into the early struggles of many prospect pitchers, and a few waiver-wire targets to consider as the weekend approaches.
Rundown
1:29 Ronel Blanco's Sticky-Stuff Suspension
7:38 Austin Riley's Side Injury; Slow Start
11:39 Jung Hoo Lee: Structural Damage in Shoulder
19:26 Adbert Alzolay to the IL; Searching for Answers in the Cubs' Bullpen
27:39 Still Waiting on Junior Caminero
33:16 Heston Kjerstad Usage & Demotion to Triple-A
44:37 A Look at the Early Struggles of Many Pitching Prospects
54:57 Weekend Waiver-Wire Considerations
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:24.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boosts, |
| 0:27.6 | season, season exclusions apply 18 here with you on this episode. |
| 0:54.4 | We'll dig into some fantasy baseball news you should know. We have a sticky stuff suspension to happen this week. We've got a slugger in Atlanta that's dealing with an injury but not on the I-Ls. We'll talk about some implications of that. Plus a lot of injuries hitting the Giants recently. a Jung-ho Lee with a bad one over the weekend. |
| 0:52.6 | We're getting more details on just how bad that is. |
| 1:14.8 | We'll talk about the fallout from that. |
| 1:16.4 | We're also going to have Project Prospect digging into some news and notes on the prospect side, |
| 1:21.0 | as well as some generally underwhelming performances across the landscape of pitching prospects. |
| 1:27.1 | We'll try to talk about some names you should be interested in if you're looking for future pitching. |
| 1:31.3 | It's not easy to find right now. |
| 1:33.5 | And we'll have our weekend waiver wire preview before we sign off for the day as well. |
| 1:38.1 | If you haven't joined already, jump into the Discord. |
| 1:40.9 | Lots of good times happening there. |
| 1:42.6 | It's about as much fun as you can have in an online chat, at least, you know, like in a |
| 1:47.5 | baseball adjacent sort of way. |
| 1:50.2 | Oh yeah, definitely a lot of fun there. |
| 1:51.7 | I love the like screaming into the void and the different channels we've got there. |
| 1:57.8 | A lot of great channels. |
| 1:59.1 | But we begin today with Ronell Blanco. |
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