Opportunity Knocks, Even in April
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 62 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
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Friday, April 18th. Derek Van Riper, Inno Seris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.0 | We dig into some news from around the league, including some testing on the shoulder of Grayson Rodriguez. |
| 0:26.7 | We'll talk about that and the impact of a longer absence for Rodriguez on an Orioles rotation that really needs him back. |
| 0:34.8 | We've got some prospect of the week's selections. We're going to have our |
| 0:38.2 | senior hot dog correspondent, Niv Shaw. He's also the founder of Autonu. He will join us a little |
| 0:43.1 | bit later in the show. We got a hot dog review on tap and some weekend waiver pickup advice. |
| 0:48.3 | So we have tons of ground to cover Eno and a mailbag question that's about as scientific and philosophical as any mailbag question |
| 0:56.2 | 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. |
| 1:11.7 | He was supposed to throw a bullpen session on Thursday. |
| 1:14.3 | Those plans were scrapped, and instead, he went for imaging on his shoulder. |
| 1:19.2 | And the shoulder is not the reason Grace and Rodriguez was on the IL in the first place. |
| 1:23.6 | They're calling it soreness for now, but until we have the results of the MRI, |
| 1:28.6 | it's really more of a hold our breath and just hope that it's typical ramping up |
| 1:33.0 | soreness and not something worse. But because Grayson Rodriguez dealt with a lat strain |
| 1:38.1 | at the end of last season, I think our minds immediately go to some sort of underlying problem still being there. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, it's not great. |
| 1:47.7 | It's not great at all. |
| 1:48.7 | It's tough on the Orioles. |
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