Ronald Acuña Jr.'s Second ACL Tear, Carroll Questions & May Starting Pitcher Risers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a brutal diagnosis for Ronald Acuña Jr., who suffered another torn ACL over the weekend. Plus, they consider the ongoing struggles of Corbin Carroll, Ángel Hernández's abrupt retirement, and a few May risers from Eno's updated Starting Pitcher Rankings.
Rundown
2:06 Ronald Acuña Jr.'s 2024 Season Ends with Another Torn ACL
10:43 The Ongoing Struggles of Corbin Carroll
18:43 Victor Robles: DFA'd by Nationals
27:13 Is Passing on Low Barrel Rate Bats An Easy Call?
31:15: Ángel Hernández Retires
35:24 Injury Updates: Cristian Javier, Jorge Polanco & Kodai Senga
46:49 May Risers: Eno's Updated Starting Pitcher Rankings
($) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5513570
59:38 Jake Meyers & Colt Keith As Popular Weekend Waiver-Wire Adds
1:09:35 David Fry is Unbelievable
1:12:09 Casey Mize's Rapidly Declining Stuff
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| 0:00.0 | It's an exciting week for the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.1 | No one covers women's soccer like Meg Linnehan and her podcast full-time is back. |
| 0:08.4 | Join Meg and her new co-host Tamara Griffin as they break down new women's national team head coach Emma Hayes' first roster as the team prepares for this summer's Olympics. |
| 0:16.6 | They'll also be joined by Brazilian forward DeBino, plays forC. Current to discuss Brazil being named the 2027 World Cup host. |
| 0:25.4 | It's full time with Meg Linnehan and new co-host Tamara Griffin. |
| 0:29.1 | Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:48.7 | Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, May 28th. |
| 0:50.2 | Derek and Ryper, Ido Seris here. |
| 0:56.0 | Hope we had a great long weekend in the States full of grilling, gardening, going to a ball game, spending time with friends and family, something good, hopefully, from |
| 1:00.3 | the long weekend on this episode. We'll discuss the unfortunate injury to Ronald Acuna Jr. |
| 1:07.0 | We've been here before, and it's not a fun place to be. We had a major DFA. Victor |
| 1:12.8 | Robles has been let go by the Nationals. He's in limbo right now. It's important on this show. |
| 1:23.4 | The number of ways I was notified hit an all-time high. |
| 1:30.3 | It used to just be tweets. |
| 1:32.1 | Now it's Twitter. |
| 1:33.2 | Now it's the Discord. |
| 1:34.3 | Getting to Discord. |
| 1:35.2 | Now it's text. |
| 1:35.9 | I got some texts about it. |
| 1:37.1 | It's like, geez. |
| 1:38.1 | This is really important to folks. |
| 1:40.3 | I put it second on the rundown, so we'll get to it. |
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