Roman Anthony Gets the Call & NL Playoff Picture Check-In
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Red Sox's promotion of Roman Anthony and the future logjam in the outfield once Wilyer Abreu eventually returns from the IL. Plus, the return of Eury Pérez, the Brewers' upcoming promotion of Jacob Misiorowski, and a return trip to the IL for Bryce Miller.
Plus, The Athletic's Dennis Lin drops by to discuss the Padres, including the rash of pitching injuries that have impacted the rotation, Xander Bogaerts' lost power, and how A.J. Preller could still find a way to make additions at the Trade Deadline in July.
Finally, Eno and DVR take a quick look at the NL Playoff Picture in search of teams that can significantly change their direction in the next seven weeks.
Rundown
1:09 Roman Anthony Promoted by Red Sox
13:01 Jacob Misiorowski to Join Brewers on Thursday as Starter
20:06 Eury Pérez: Makes Return From Tommy John Surgery
25:37 Denzel Clarke is Amazing
30:53 Dennis Lin Joins the Show to Talk Padres
47:48 June Check-In: NL Playoff Picture Connecting Buyers & Sellers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Daryl's Tuesday, June 10th, Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:16.5 | We discussed the debut of Roman Anthony some podcast, luck yesterday as our episode was being processed. |
| 0:23.8 | We learned that Anthony was promoted by the Red Sox to make his major league debut in Monday's |
| 0:28.9 | game. So we'll discuss that. Yuri Perez is back from the 60 day IL. We'll talk about where |
| 0:34.8 | his stuff is at right now and how he looked compared to |
| 0:37.7 | previous opportunities he's had in the big leagues. We're going to take a full scale check |
| 0:42.8 | in on the NL wildcard picture because we're about, I don't know, more than a third of the way |
| 0:48.5 | into the season. So I'm going to dig into some teams that are trying to push themselves into |
| 0:52.7 | clear buyer status as the trade |
| 0:55.6 | deadline is less than two months away. We're also going to do a bit of a deep dive on the |
| 0:59.7 | Padres with Dennis Lynn on today's episode as well. So a lot of ground to cover, Eno. Roman |
| 1:05.7 | Anthony, though, promoted by the Red Sox, part of the corresponding move there, of course, |
| 1:10.0 | Willier-A-U went on the IL with an oblique strain. So that's what opened up this |
| 1:14.3 | opportunity for Roman Anthony. But it was a debut as anticipated, probably as Jack Caglione's |
| 1:20.4 | arrival recently in Kansas City. We did see a nice 11.2 comebacker happened to hit |
| 1:27.2 | Shane Boz in or around the glute area. That was the |
| 1:29.7 | highest EV of any badded ball in Monday's game. The hype is certainly as high as it gets for a |
| 1:35.5 | prospect, especially for our Red Sox team, it's still just not quite firing on all cylinders. So |
| 1:41.2 | high expectations for Roman Anthony from day one. What did you see, though, |
| 1:45.8 | in the debut? It's everything that he's done, which is take walks, make contact, and hit the |
| 1:53.2 | ball hard, albeit kind of maybe on the ground. That's the one thing he's been struggling with. He's |
| 1:58.7 | got his ground ball rate, Roman Anthony does, up from, you know, it was in the 60s when he first debuted. But he's been consistently in the 50s. So he's going to be a guy who hits the ball hard. And often on the ground, you know, a Christian yellich comp is not impossible for me. Got a lefty with speed and power, |
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