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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Paul Skenes vs. Jacob Misiorowski and Paths to Becoming an Ace

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss a highly-anticipated matchup between Paul Skenes and Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski, and the different approaches the two pitchers bring to the table. Plus, they discuss the foundation necessary for a pitcher to become an eventual Cy Young Award contender or future ace, before a collaborative draft of the 2025 rookie starting pitchers.


Rundown

0:51 Jacob Misiorowski v. Paul Skenes

4:54 Skenes' Early Career Adjustments, Planning Ahead for Future Velocity Decline?

10:05 Misiorowski's Long-Term Ceiling

14:45 Tarik Skubal and the Multi-Year Path to Elite Levels

22:08 Eno's Criteria for Eventual Aces

32:38 A Collaborative Rookie Starting Pitcher Draft

43:29 Beyond Our Top-Five

57:06 Recapping the Top-15


Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social

Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social

Follow Trevor on Bluesky: @iamtrevormay.bsky.social


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

With: Trevor May

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Transcript

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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.

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0:45.3

It's Thursday, June 26.

0:46.8

Derek Van Riper, I know Saras, Trevor May here with you on this episode.

0:50.2

We discuss a highly anticipated matchup that mostly delivered on Wednesday.

0:55.2

Jacob Mizorowski versus Paul Skeens happened on a nice Wednesday afternoon in Milwaukee.

1:00.4

Two aces doing it different ways, as Enosaurus will explain here in just a few minutes.

1:05.7

We're going to take a look at some big picture questions like,

1:08.0

what do you need foundationally to become an ace to become the type of

1:11.5

pitcher that competes for and maybe wins a Cy Young award and we will have a rookie starting

1:17.5

pitcher's draft later on in the show so a lot of pitching talk today and it was a great day on

1:23.5

Wednesday watching that matchup between Mizorowski and Skeens you know know, elite stuff, electric and kind of funny to think that only a year and a month

1:33.0

after Paul Skeens makes his big league debut, another really hyped starter comes up and they're

1:39.9

running this, this lower graphic of 100 plus mile per hour pitches pitches and Skeens isn't winning in that category,

1:47.7

which if someone a year ago had told you something like that was going to happen,

1:50.6

you're like, what, really?

1:51.4

Like, skeins is going to get out-veloed by somebody new a year from now?

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