Reliever Bonanza!!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Eno & Trevor go on a reliever bonanza and talk everything reliever from the past 4 seasons to the future. They breakdown the best relievers of the past 4 years, some of the guys in the top 30, a few guys who could make the jump soon and a few players to keep an eye on in the future and what pitches make them special.
Rundown
1:20- Young Players that might be called up soon
6:12- Tim Anderson DFA'd by the Angels
9:36- Doval moved back to the Giants closer
14;12- Best Relievers in the last 4 years
19:07- Jason Adam breakdown
25:59- Griffin Jax breakdown
28:27- Tanner Scott breakdown
33:46- Jeff Hoffman breakdown
38:36- Graham Ashcroft look ahead
40:38- Jeremiah Estrada look ahead
44:14- Randy Rodriguez look ahead
48:10- Will Vest look ahead
51:00- Relievers to look for in the future & their best pitches
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Hosts: Eno Sarris & Trevor May
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody to another Rates and barrels without Derek Van Riper. |
| 0:16.7 | I am losing my damn mind out here, but Trevor Bay is here to help me, and I will need his help. |
| 0:24.9 | Because I do not know how to throw things or to transition or any of that. |
| 0:31.7 | So I just say, hi, Trevor May. |
| 0:33.7 | How are you doing? |
| 0:34.8 | I'm doing so good. |
| 0:37.1 | Wonderful intro. You're crushing it so far. |
| 0:40.7 | No, I know what you mean. It's especially if it's the person you're used to having and pushing things around. |
| 0:45.8 | But fortunately, we don't have as many subjects. Our show is designed a little bit differently where we can just kind of rant, which I think we do pretty well. |
| 0:53.3 | So this was an easy just a ranting episodes. |
| 0:55.6 | We're doing reliever bonanza today. |
| 0:58.7 | We're going to do a little bit of news up top, and then we are just talking about relievers, |
| 1:02.6 | something near and dear to Trevor's heart. |
| 1:05.2 | We are going to talk about some of the best relievers in the past four years, |
| 1:09.2 | hopefully then take that to the next four years |
| 1:12.1 | to kind of give you a sense of maybe what to look for and how to evaluate relievers just beyond |
| 1:17.6 | the numbers. Today, just a little bit of news. Jeff Passon has a piece about Jack Caglione and |
| 1:25.5 | Roman Anthony and how they might be up soon and why they aren't up yet. |
| 1:31.3 | I saw this little nugget in there was that that Jack Caglione is on basically like a week |
| 1:38.3 | and a half homestand right now and that he might be up after that. |
| 1:42.2 | And I think it's high time. Yes, he chases a pitch is outside of the |
| 1:47.1 | zone as the piece brings up. But he's done that a little bit better recently. And then on top of that, |
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