Ronald Acuña Jr. and George Kirby are Back!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss George Kirby's first start back from the IL, Ronald Acuña Jr.'s outlook as he returns from a second ACL tear this weekend, a case for Carson Whisenhunt to get a look in San Francisco, Matt Shaw's viability in shallow leagues, and Denzel Clarke's path to avoiding a platoon in the A's outfield. Plus, Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah returns with big news at Nationals Park.
Rundown
2:16 George Kirby: Back in Action on Thursday; Scouting Report?
7:59 Ronald Acuña Jr.: Returns on Friday against the Padres
12:41 Ronel Blanco Seeks Second Opinion; Astros Rotation Depth Questions Persist
17:44 News & Notes: Lane Thomas, Gleyber Torres, Corey Seager, Jordan Westburg and Justin Verlander
24:57 Matt Shaw: Back on Shallow League Radar?
33:32 Denzel Clarke & Robert Hassell III Get Promoted
38:16 Shane Baz v. Rising Starting Pitchers
44:47 Niv Shah Joins to the Show!
52:06 Most Auctioned, Added & Dropped on ottoneu, last seven days
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.1 | It is Friday, May 23rd. |
| 0:18.4 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. |
| 0:21.7 | George Kirby made his return from a shoulder injury on Thursday night. |
| 0:25.7 | Results weren't great. |
| 0:26.7 | Stuff looked pretty good. |
| 0:27.9 | We'll get the full report from Eno here in just a few minutes. |
| 0:31.4 | Ronald LeCunia Jr. back for Atlanta on Friday night. |
| 0:34.5 | We'll talk about our expectations for him as he makes his return from his second |
| 0:38.0 | ACL tear. We've got our usual Friday weekend waiver preview, lots of would you rather style |
| 0:44.9 | toss-ups as you try to make some roster decisions going into the long weekend. And of course, |
| 0:51.3 | our senior hot dog correspondent, Niv Shaw is back with some huge news out of |
| 0:57.1 | Nationals Park. I am pumped for that today because Niv has something I have never seen in an |
| 1:03.7 | American ballpark before. I am pumped for your new swag. You come back from New York with new |
| 1:08.6 | swag. What is it called? It's like a captain's hat. |
| 1:11.3 | What does it call when they put the little thing across? |
| 1:14.1 | I think of it as a captain's hat. |
| 1:15.9 | These were big in the 80s and 90s. |
| 1:18.6 | And it's a special hat. |
| 1:21.0 | It's an athletic brand hat. |
| 1:22.5 | And I won it during the meetings. |
| 1:25.6 | This is a trivia win? |
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