Roki Sasaki is Headed to MLB, Andrew Painter's Fall League Run & November News
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR return from a brief break to discuss Roki Sasaki's decision to head to MLB for the 2025 season. Now that he's on the way, they discuss a few potential landing spots and how they're currently valuing him for early drafts. Plus, they look at Andrew Painter's return in the Arizona Fall League, Josue Briceño's MVP-winning performance in the league, and another round of November news including shoulder surgery for Zach Neto, more changes to the left field wall in Baltimore, and a temporary move to George Steinbrenner Field for the Rays in 2025.
Rundown
2:24 Roki Sasaki is Headed to MLB, Where Will He Land?
9:50 Would You Rather?: Roki Sasaki v. Other Early-Round (Top 75 overall) Starting Pitchers
21:55 Andrew Painter's Arizona Fall League Return
27:25 Josue Briceño Gets on the Deep Dynasty League Radar in the AFL
34:14 Reading the Tea Leaves: Aaron Boone's Comments on Caleb Durbin & Jasson Dominguez
39:48 Griffin Jax Being Considered for Starting Role in Minnesota
46:19 Zach Neto Undergoes Shoulder Surgery
53:49 Grayson Rodriguez: Fully Recovered From Lat Strain
56:37 Other News & Notes: Charlie Morton & The Rays' 2025 Home
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday. November 18th. We are back. Derek and Riper, Ion Seris, here with you. On this episode, we have an update on Roki Sasaki. Roki Sasaki is coming to Major League Baseball for the 2025 season. We'll discuss the possibilities of where he might end up. And now that we know he is coming, Stateside, we'll figure out where he should rank among pitchers, |
| 0:37.8 | at least in this window where we don't know his team. We're talking about some takeaways from the |
| 0:42.5 | Arizona Fall League. That league wrapped up over the weekend. We're on roll change watch as we are |
| 0:48.2 | every winter now looking for pitchers who might make the move from the bullpen to the rotation. |
| 0:52.7 | There's one in Minnesota that Eno previously wrote about that might be making that adjustment. |
| 0:57.5 | We had a surprise shoulder surgery. |
| 0:59.3 | Not me, not Eno, Zach Netto. |
| 1:00.9 | We'll talk about the implications of that and a few other news items to get to over the course of this hour or so. |
| 1:08.4 | Eno, how was your week off? |
| 1:11.2 | Strange. |
| 1:11.7 | It was very strange to not see you every day. |
| 1:16.3 | I set up my microphone at the dining room table and just did a, like a dry run by myself. |
| 1:23.6 | Just so I wouldn't get rusty. |
| 1:24.8 | Announced your child eating his breakfast. |
| 1:29.4 | What's the barrel rate on that? |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.2 | It was impressive. |
| 1:34.7 | No, so the highlight of the week, I think, and this tells you how boring the week was for me and how strange it was, was my Instagram feed recommended Elmo singing a system |
| 1:47.3 | of the down song. |
| 1:49.5 | And that was probably the best thing I saw over the past week. |
| 1:53.2 | It was incredible. |
| 1:54.8 | Oh, my God. |
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