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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Replacing Aces with Future Callups?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the confirmation that Corbin Burnes needs Tommy John surgery, the impact his absence will have on the D-backs' rotation, the best pitchers in the minors yet to make their MLB debuts, how they approach weekly spending in FAAB leagues, and where the money went over the weekend -- including pickups of Bryce Elder and Michael McGreevy as teams continue to search for viable pitching help.


Rundown

1:49 Corbin Burnes Needs Tommy John Surgery

9:03 What's Next for the Diamondbacks?

15:26 Brandon Pfaadt's Low Strikeout Rate & Overall Struggles

21:39 Who Is The Best Pitcher Yet to Debut?

32:33 Other News & Notes: Julio Rodríguez, Kyle Teel, Justin Verlander and LaMonte Wade Jr.

45:19 Managing Budgets Over the Entire Season

54:44 Where the Money Went: Jac, CES, Jo Adell, Bryce Elder & Michael McGreevy


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to rates and barrels.

0:12.8

It's Monday, June 9th, Derek Van Riper.

0:15.5

You know Sarah's here with you on this episode.

0:17.9

We have a follow-up.

0:18.8

It is a sad follow-up.

0:19.9

Corbyn Burns will undergo Tommy John surgery.

0:23.0

We'll discuss the implications on Burns, long-term,

0:26.0

as well as the short and long-term impact this will have on the Diamondbacks rotation.

0:31.8

We did get a minor league promotion that we expected.

0:34.9

Chase Burns got bumped up to AAA, so we'll talk about Burns

0:38.1

and the best pitchers yet to debut currently in the minor leagues.

0:43.9

Got some mailbag questions to get to one detailed one that we're going to focus on a little

0:49.3

bit later in the show, and we'll take a look at where the money went this weekend.

0:53.2

Eno smash the fab piggy bank for Jack Caglione.

0:57.1

We'll discuss why.

0:58.9

And kind of, I would be sad if you didn't based on how often you were bringing him up for the past month.

1:06.4

And then when we did the analysis of like the short sample analysis, I was like, it's all good.

1:13.1

Just cherry picking certain things that are great.

1:15.8

And they're like this, this, this and this all good.

1:18.3

So we're this.

1:19.4

The siren song, the thing that speaks to me most that tickles me in the ways I like to be tickled is contact with power. Yeah, contact with power is great.

1:30.3

Huge exit velocities. That was enough for me. It's fair. I understand. People who look

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