Reliever Bonanza!!

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 59 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

Executive Producer: Brian Smith

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0:51.2	But Trevor Bay is here to help me, and I will need his help because I do not know
0:58.9	how to throw things or to transition or any of that. So I just say, hi, Trevor May. How are you doing?
1:07.2	I'm doing so good. Wonderful intro. You're crushing it so far. No, I know what you mean.
1:14.1	It's especially if it's the person you're used to having and pushing things around. But fortunately,
1:18.8	we don't have as many subjects. Our show is designed a little bit differently where we can just kind of
1:23.4	rant, which I think we do pretty well. So this was an easy one. Ranting episodes.
1:27.9	We're doing Reliever Bonanza today.
1:31.1	We're going to do a little bit of news up top.
1:32.7	And then we are just talking about relievers, something near and dear to Trevor's heart.
1:37.5	We are going to talk about some of the best relievers in the past four years, hopefully
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