Pressing Reset in Early May

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the surprising early May demotion to Triple-A for Jake Burger, and look at some of the biggest movers on the O-Swing% leaderboard from 2024 to 2025. Plus, they discuss another injury for Mike Trout, Jazz Chisholm's shift to the IL, and a few intriguing names to consider on the waiver as the weekend begins. Rundown3:40 Jake Burger Optioned to Triple-A10:02 O-Swing% Changers: 2024 to 2025; The Rangers' Aggressive Approach16:59 Mike Trout Placed on the IL24:37 The Angels' Curious Late-Inning Bullpen Management30:06 Jazz Chisholm Jr.: Oblique Injury Leads to IL Trip35:19 Updates on Gelof, Ohtani, Darvish & Buehler41:15 Pitchers to Consider50:22 Shelby Miller's Path for Saves Opens Up Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.socialFollow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.sociale-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFeSubscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris Producer: Brian Smith 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.
0:12.8	It is Friday, May 2nd.
0:14.7	Derek Ben Ryper, Yonouceris, here with you on this episode.
0:17.7	We dig into some news and notes from around the league, including a surprising demotion of Jake Berger. We have Mike Trout and Jess Chisholm back on the I-L. We've got
0:27.3	some mailbag questions to get to, and we'll get you ready for some weekend waiver-wire
0:32.1	pickups. I don't think it's going to be quite as loaded as last weekend's group, but there's still three days
0:39.2	worth of games that could shake things up if you got Sunday night pickups coming up in your league.
0:43.6	So it's always fun to sit down on a Friday and then watch the chaos happen over the course
0:47.3	of the weekend series.
0:49.3	You know, how's it going for you on this Friday?
0:51.2	I'm exhausted.
0:52.3	I just barely made it.
0:53.9	It has barely made it. It has barely made it.
0:54.9	It has been a long, long week.
0:57.1	It has been the longest of weeks.
0:59.0	But my guy, Matt Denowitz, who helped create Pitching Plus, is in town.
1:04.7	So we'll hopefully figure out a couple things in Stuff Plus this weekend.
1:08.7	We're wrongly scaling minor leaguers among minor leaguers.
1:12.9	So we have to scale minor leaguers to the major leaguers.
1:15.8	And that'll help, you know, make it more predictive and make you have a real understanding
1:19.9	what that stuff plus is.
1:21.2	Like, for example, Blake Tidwell is coming up, you know, this weekend.
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