Paul Skenes Gets the Call, Tyler Black Demoted & A Rays' Rotation Shuffle
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the highly-anticipated debut of Paul Skenes, set for Saturday against the Cubs, before digging into a deep list of news items including an injury for Christian Encarnacion-Strand, a quick return to Nashville for Tyler Black following Christian Yelich's activation from the IL, Taj Bradley's return to health, and the triumphant return of Prospect of the Week.
Rundown
0:57 Paul Skenes is Joining the Pirates! Rest of Season Expectations?
9:14 Christian Encarnacion-Strand: On IL with Fractured Wrist
20:06 Christian Yelich's Return Bumps Tyler Black Back to Triple-A
26:50 Finding Replacements for Willson Contreras (Fractured Forearm)
30:22 A Setback for Max Scherzer
33:31 The Rays' Rotation Shuffle: Taj Bradley is Back, Ryan Pepiot to the IL, Shane Baz at Triple-A on Rehab Assignment
46:13 Braxton Garrett: Tread Carefully Upon Activation?
49:42 Project Prospect: Bryan Ramos, Rhett Lowder, Mason Black & Parker Meadows
60:11 Other Waiver Targets to Consider: Jonny DeLuca, Again!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Raids, Beryl. It's Thursday, May 9th. Derek and Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. |
| 0:21.5 | We dig into some fantasy baseball news you should know, including the promotion of Paul Skeens, which is coming this weekend. |
| 0:28.4 | On our third, maybe our fourth attempt, we actually got the date correct. So it is finally happening. |
| 0:33.9 | Eventually we'll be right. Let us guess enough times. Eventually, we have to be right. It's just the simple way it's going to work. We'll talk about expectations for skeins. Other big news items. We've got some players coming off the IL. We'll get to our weekend waiver preview and our latest installment of Project as well. As we mentioned at the top of our episode, we got a Discord, jumped on in there. |
| 0:54.9 | The link is in the show description. Let's start with Paul Skeens, you know, the big story |
| 1:00.0 | of the week, right? We've talked about them a lot over the last few weeks, expecting this day |
| 1:04.4 | to come. The debut is Saturday. It's against the Cubs. It is at home. All I'm seeing |
| 1:10.0 | around Twitter is chatter indicating that this is the most highly |
| 1:14.4 | anticipated pitching debut since Steven Strasbourg, which I don't really have any |
| 1:18.6 | pushback on. |
| 1:19.4 | I think in terms of hype, in terms of the dominant skeins has shown in his brief time |
| 1:24.9 | in the minor leagues, that's a fair sort of assessment. |
| 1:29.4 | And the follow-ups to that have all been, oh, how high is too high to rank him now that he's joining the big |
| 1:35.0 | league ranks. Is he a top 10, top 15, top 20, top 25? Where do you think he fits? If you were |
| 1:41.3 | re-ranking pitchers today, even before seeing the first Paul |
| 1:46.2 | Skeen's major league start, where would he go? A lot of second chance drafts are are kicking |
| 1:51.5 | off here. So this is a real question people are trying to solve. I think in many leagues, |
| 1:56.8 | Skeens has already rostered and shallow leagues he's going to be picked up anywhere where he's not |
| 2:00.7 | already rostered, but what are we getting right out of the box? This is where I think Stuff Plus |
| 2:05.6 | really helps us compare apples to apples a lot better than we would have in the years. When |
| 2:11.7 | Strasbourg came up, we didn't have models like that. He has comparable like second best to Stuff Plus in AAA and he combined it |
| 2:20.3 | with above average locations in a way that almost nobody else, actually in a way that nobody else |
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