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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the setback for Grayson Rodriguez and the fallout for the Orioles' rotation, the promotion of Luke Keaschall as the Twins deal with a few injuries on their depth chart, and weekend waiver pickups to consider with Ottoneu found and Rates & Barrels Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah. Rundown 1:09 Grayson Rodriguez Has a Setback 10:34 Luke Keaschall Gets the Call to the Twins 16:57 Prospect of the Week 25:57 What's Driving the Interest in Tyler Mahle? 28:48 Matthew Liberatore: Post-Hype Sleeper? 30:48 Austin Hays: Underrated Pickup in Cincinnati; The Reds' Crowd 35:54: Behold...."The L.A. Dog"! 42:32 Jo Adell's Chances of a 2025 Breakout 47:38 Tanner Bibee's Early Struggles 49:50 A $1 Bet on Science 53:26 Other Weekend Waiver Targets to Consider Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social Follow Niv on Bluesky: @ottoneu.bsky.social e-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris Guest: Niv Shah Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to rates and barrels.
0:15.8	It is Friday, April 18th.
0:17.9	Derek Van Riper, Eno Seris, here with you on this episode.
0:26.6	We dig into some news from around the league, including some testing on the shoulder of Grayson Rodriguez.
0:34.2	We'll talk about that and the impact of a longer absence for Rodriguez on an Orioles rotation that really needs him back.
0:37.4	We've got some prospect of the week's selections. We're going to have our senior
0:38.6	hot dog correspondent, Niv Shah. He's also the founder of Autonew. He will join us a little bit later
0:43.3	in the show. We got a hot dog review on tap and some weekend waiver pickup advice. So we have
0:48.8	tons of ground to cover, you know, and a mailbag question that's about as scientific and philosophical as any mailbag
0:55.8	question I've ever seen on one of our rundowns, so we're definitely looking forward to that.
1:00.9	If you'd like to join the conversation on Discord, you can do that with the link in the show
1:04.9	description.
1:05.4	That's the best place to send mailbag questions for the show as well.
1:09.2	Let's get into this with the Grayson Rodriguez news.
1:11.6	He was supposed to throw a bullpen session on Thursday.
1:14.2	Those plans were scrapped.
1:16.0	And instead, he went for imaging on his shoulder.
1:19.1	And the shoulder is not the reason Grayson Rodriguez was on the IL in the first place.
1:23.6	They're calling it soreness for now.
1:25.0	But until we have the results of the MRI, it's really more of a hold our breath and just hope that it's typical ramping up soreness and not something worse.
1:34.4	But because Grayson Rodriguez dealt with a lat strain at the end of last season, I think our minds immediately go to some sort of underlying problem still being there.
1:45.9	Yeah, it's not great.
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