Prospect Promotions for September Roster Expansion
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a flurry of news from the long weekend including moves to the IL for MacKenzie Gore (shoulder), Edward Cabrera (elbow) and Jason Adam (quad), returns from Chris Sale and Jackson Chourio, a highly unusual home run from Trevor Story courtesy of the Pesky Pole at Fenway, and a few intriguing promotions from Sept. 1 roster expansion including Reds prospect Sal Stewart.
Rundown
1:17 MacKenzie Gore: Placed on IL w/Shoulder Inflammation; Familiar Fade?
4:44 Edward Cabrera: Career Year Cut Short by Elbow Sprain
9:06 Jason Adam: Ruptures Left Quad Tendon
12:23 Jackson Chourio & Chris Sale Return from the IL
15:07 Kodai Senga's Struggles, Potential to Lose Rotation Spot
22:40 Ha-Seong Kim: Claimed Off Waivers by Atlanta
32:09 Trevor Story's Unusual Homer at Fenway Park
46:03 Sal Stewart Headlines Roster Expansion Callups & Returns
57:54 Long-Term League Toss-Up: Payton Tolle v. Jonah Tong
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| 0:00.0 | Disney Lullaby, a cute playlist with soothing lullaby versions of Disney songs. |
| 0:11.0 | The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. |
| 0:34.7 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:54.5 | Tuesday, September 2nd, Derek and Riper, Enoceris here with you on this episode. We have a ton of baseball news you should know. We've got players landing on the IL. We've got guys coming back from the IL. We have Kodai Sinka, possibly losing his rotation spot. We have Hassan Kim in Atlanta all the sudden? |
| 0:54.9 | What? |
| 0:56.3 | I didn't even know he was on waivers. |
| 0:58.6 | You know, apparently he's with Atlanta now. |
| 1:02.9 | We have some roster expansion, not as much as we used to get, |
| 1:06.2 | but two players added to every roster on Monday. |
| 1:09.0 | So bigger rosters, some interesting names in there, |
| 1:12.1 | including a top prospect in Cincinnati, among a few others. |
| 1:18.7 | And in place of where the money went, we're going to talk about how we would prioritize and choose between Jonah Tong and Peyton Tolly in long-term leagues, because that's an interesting question to break down from a keeper and dynasty perspective. |
| 1:26.2 | And we're at that point in the year where the money went is to fill immediate needs. |
| 1:31.1 | It's at two-star pitchers. |
| 1:32.2 | It's a lot of the players we're talking about on our Friday episodes. |
| 1:34.7 | So we begin today with a very rested Eno and news that McKenzie Gore has been placed on the IL with shoulder inflammation. |
| 1:44.8 | He is optimistic about pitching again this season, so we'll see if that happens in the next |
| 1:48.6 | couple of weeks. |
| 1:49.9 | You might remember, McKenzie Gore had a 302 ERA and a 120 whip at the All-Star break. |
| 1:57.6 | He's got a 754 ERA and a 176 whip in the time since most of that damage |
| 2:04.0 | coming in his first three out of four starts coming out of the break. I wanted to ask you, |
| 2:08.8 | were there any clear and obvious signs of decay in McKenzie Gore's arsenal that lined up |
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