Preserving Pitcher Health & Breaking Down 'Big Amish'
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss the passing of Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg, whose HOF career influenced a generation of baseball players throughout the 80s and 90s.Plus, they discuss the debut of Carson Whisenhunt, adjusting to new catchers in-season, if measures to preserve the health of pitchers are showing signs of success, and how they would pitch to A's rookie Nick Kurtz, who continues to impress in Year 1.
Rundown
1:14 Cubs Legend Ryne Sandberg Passes Away at Age 65
5:56 Carson Whisenhunt Debuts, Shows Elite Changeup
8:37 Eno's Intrigue w/Carson Seymour
11:41 Danny Jansen to the Brewers; How Difficult Is It to Work with a New Catcher In-Season?
18:06 So, That's Why They Traded for Chris Paddack
24:23 Protecting Pitchers: Is Anything Working?
38:13 Bullpen Trends Over Time
46:48 How I'd Pitch This Guy: Nick Kurtz
59:22 Rich Hill DFA'd by Royals: Can You Name His 14 MLB Teams?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rakes and Barrels, presented by E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. |
| 0:14.3 | It's Tuesday, July 29th. |
| 0:15.7 | Derek Van Ripe. |
| 0:16.3 | Barino-Sarist, Trevor May here with you on this episode. |
| 0:19.2 | We take a spin around the league. |
| 0:20.7 | We had the debut of Carson Wisenhunt for the Giants on Monday night. We'll talk about that 80 grade change. We'll talk about how that debut went all around. The Dodgers are promoting a prospect due to some infield injuries. Alex Freeland, got a few minor trades and injury follow-ups to get to. A couple big picture topics, as I mentioned on Monday's show. |
| 0:38.7 | We're going to talk about Nick Kurtz and how we would game plan to pitch against him. |
| 0:44.3 | Basically, you know, can you get into the strikeout rate somehow? |
| 0:47.9 | Can you find places he doesn't do damage and actually get Nick Kurtz out? |
| 0:51.7 | So he's putting together a fantastic rookie season. |
| 0:54.4 | We're also going to talk about protecting pitchers a little bit as well. |
| 0:57.2 | If we have any looking for evidence to discuss possible tweaks that have actually worked as teams try all sorts of different things to reduce major injuries to pitchers, is it going anywhere? |
| 1:07.7 | We'll look at some longer term trends there. |
| 1:09.9 | Some sad news, though, from the baseball world on Monday. |
| 1:12.7 | We learned to the passing of Cubs legend Ryan Sandberg, passing away at the age of 65. |
| 1:18.6 | Sandberg revealed more than a year ago that he had been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. |
| 1:23.6 | And his passing comes just at a brutal time coming off of Hall of Fame weekend. |
| 1:30.3 | And just thinking about the impact he had on that franchise and actually on a generation of baseball fans. |
| 1:36.3 | I was thinking about this a lot over the last day. And just the, the Cubs in the 80s and 90s, along with the Braves because of TBS. |
| 1:44.6 | But the Cubs because of WGN were one of those teams that were on all the time. |
| 1:49.1 | So during summer break, afternoon games at Wrigley, Cubs were on TV, no matter where you live. |
| 1:54.2 | Ryan Sandberg was the face of those teams. |
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