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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Rivalry Weekend Waiver Wire Preview

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss several news and notes around Major League Baseball including another unfortunate injury for Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa, and potential improvement from the Royals' lineup in the months ahead before discussing 'Rivalry Weekend' and several players on the roster fringes in fantasy baseball leagues.


Rundown

0:57 Byron Buxton & Carlos Correa in Concussion Protocol

8:23 Maikel Garcia: Skills Growth *and* First Quarter Heater?

14:12 Spencer Strider: Returning During Nats Series: AJSS Sticking?

21:56 Other News & Notes: Eury Pérez, Tyler Glasnow, Spencer Horwitz, and Carson Palmquist

28:22 Rivalry Weekend: Anything You're Excited About?

37:38 Weekend Waiver Preview

50:20 Hitter Leaderboard: This Weekend's Bats to Consider

54:21 Intriguing Names on the Pitching Front


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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

Book to Rates and Therals.

0:13.0

It is Friday, May 16th, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you.

0:16.9

It's a fantasy Friday.

0:18.4

On this episode, we dig into some news and notes from around the

0:21.6

league, and we get ready for this weekend's waiver pickup, keeping the format we adopted

0:26.6

last week, taking a look at players moving in both directions, trying to figure out what to do

0:31.3

for the guys that seemingly are stuck in the middle. I think that's the slice of the player

0:35.8

pool we're going to focus on at the end of the week most Fridays throughout this season.

0:41.1

A quick reminder, you can join our Discord with the link in the show description.

0:44.9

Be sure to leave us a nice rating and review if you're listening to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

0:49.4

And be sure to hit that like button if you're watching us on YouTube.

0:53.6

Eno, let's start with the news.

0:55.0

Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa in the concussion protocol after a collision in the outfield,

1:00.0

Correa was just backing up on a shallow fly ball, eventually kind of stopped and braced himself.

1:06.0

Byron Buxton made the catch and ran right into him because they were inevitably going to collide.

1:11.7

If you watched that play, it was like what happened in slow motion.

1:15.3

The brutal part about this, you know, both in the concussion protocol,

1:19.1

the Byron Buxton has a pretty extensive history of concussions, I believe his most recent

1:23.6

one that we know about.

1:25.1

And it was described as concussion-like symptoms, which to me

1:27.9

means you almost certainly had a concussion. That was in 2020 in the postseason. He was

1:33.7

limited to pinch running duty in that wildcard series. But then, if you remember the really

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