Rapidly Changing Trade Deadline Needs, Rookie of the Year Battles & How to Pitch to Bobby Witt Jr.
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Trevor discuss the rapidly-changing Trade Deadline needs of the Brewers and Mariners in the face of recent injuries to Christian Yelich and Julio Rodríguez. Plus, they’ll examine the Trade Deadline opportunities for the Rays and Padres to re-shape their rosters in the final 2024 installment of ‘At the Fork’. Then, they’ll check in on the Rookie of the Year races in both leagues, before featuring this week’s Game Plan segment: How to Pitch to Bobby Witt Jr.
Rundown
1:02 Christian Yelich to Visit with Spine Specialist
4:26 Robbie Ray Pitches Well in 2024 Debut
8:17 Julio Rodríguez & J.P. Crawford Injuries Impacting M's Deadline Plans?
15:34 The Clubhouse Impact of the Trade Deadline
20:05 Could the Rays Move Veterans & Remain in the Playoff Picture?
25:53 What Will the Padres Add In Their 2024 Deadline Push
30:32 Paul Skenes is Great, and This NL Rookie Class is Loaded
35:38 A Wide Open Rookie of the Year Race in the AL
44:02 The Game Plan: Pitching to Bobby Witt Jr.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, July 25th. |
| 0:14.2 | Derek and Riper Trevor May here with you, Enoceros, on summer vacation in Trevor's neck of the woods, though. |
| 0:20.0 | So maybe you guys have got a chance to meet up at some point before Eno's back in Northern California. How's it going for you on this Thursday, Trevor? It's going good. Bouncing around, talking to a mic a lot today, but I'm excited to be here. Eno actually reached out. He had tickets. He's like, oh, I had some people drop out of a game. If you want to come to a game, I'm like, well, I'm glad I'm your replacement friend. But no, I wasn't able to get out for that. Then I'm very busy two weeks lately. So I'm trying to spend time at home as much as possible. But other than that, though, great. How are you doing? I'm trying to understand why |
| 0:55.6 | Brewers fans just can't have nice things, right? It feels like things are going well again this year, |
| 1:00.7 | and they are, but this Christian Yellich news has me really bummed out. And I guess if you're going to |
| 1:07.2 | get bad news about your roster, you'd rather have it a few days before the deadline than a few days after. |
| 1:12.4 | The Brewers have had this leading right into the postseason in recent years with Devin Williams punching a wall and breaking his hand. |
| 1:20.5 | Brandon Woodruff not being available a year ago. |
| 1:23.0 | So this is earlier than usual. |
| 1:24.4 | So maybe that means things are different. |
| 1:26.2 | We're waiting for the news on Yelich because he's going to see a spine specialist on Thursday. |
| 1:31.0 | Season-ending surgery is a possibility, according to Adam McKelvey of MLB.com. |
| 1:35.3 | And it leaves you wondering, okay, like how much can you change your trade deadline plans in the matter of a few days? |
| 1:41.8 | Yelich has been great around a little bit of lost time this year, a 155 WRC plus, easily |
| 1:47.9 | their best hitter. |
| 1:49.3 | You kind of pace him out. |
| 1:50.4 | He's like a six-win player over a full season, even though it's not the same level of power |
| 1:56.1 | output we saw during the MVP years. |
| 1:58.6 | It's that kind of player again that they're trying to replace. |
| 2:02.5 | So I guess the only thing you could take comfort in is one, we don't know for sure if it's |
| 2:06.5 | going to be seasoning surgery. |
| 2:08.0 | And two, they've got good enough depth where getting the best available position player |
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