Roki Sasaki's Debut & Our Most Rostered Players
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Roki Sasaki's big-league debut in Game 2 of the Dodgers-Cubs series in Tokyo, the now-restored DoD page about the life of Jackie Robinson, a second option for Jared Jones' elbow injury, and other spring news and notes -- including an encouraging outing from Tyler Mahle. Plus, they reveal their most rostered players (so far) ahead of the 2025 season.
Rundown
2:15 The Free Look at Two Games of the 2025 Season
3:55 Roki Sasaki's MLB Debut
7:21 Movement Profiles of Roki Sasaki's Pitches from Baseball Prospectus
14:51 When to Consider Giving Up Switch-Hitting (inspired by Tommy Edman)
21:13 DoD Deletes Articles About Jackie Robinson's Army History (Update: Restored Wednesday afternoon following the recording of this episode)
25:53 Jared Jones: Getting Second Opinion on Elbow Injury
30:28 Jace Jung's Demotion to Triple-A; Spencer Torkelson's Opportunity?
41:31 Is Tyler Mahle Feeling Froggy?
46:02 Our Most Rostered Players: Players We're Leaning On in 2025
53:30 Eno Attempts to Guess DVR's List
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| 0:55.3 | We had the highly anticipated debut of Roki Sasaki. |
| 0:58.9 | It was brief as expected. |
| 1:00.9 | We'll dig into what we saw from that start. |
| 1:04.3 | Tons of other spring news items to get to on this show as well. |
| 1:08.6 | And later on in the show, we'll talk about some of the players we are relying most heavily |
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