Rookies of Impact: September & Beyond
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and Trevor discuss some of the big news you might have missed, Trevor's boxes being used by Cade Povich, Trevor's take on the Valdez-Salazer cross up, the importance of rookies during September and the Playoffs and what to make of the Mets rotation after they called up 3 of their top prospects.
Rundown
1:05- Spencer Arrighetti to the IL
6:52- Sung-Mun Song wants to be posted
19:18- Trevor Rogers turnaround in 2025
27:38- Cade Povich uses Trevor’s boxes
35:42- Trevor’s Take on the Framer-Salazar cross up
42:10- Importance of rookies during Sept & playoffs
44;26- What do the Mets do with their rotation?
52:33- Cade Horton’s grips
58:28- Payton Tolle could be interesting
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Hosts: Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:12.0 | The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. |
| 0:19.9 | Music Listen now. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome to your Thursday edition of Rates and Burrels. |
| 0:39.6 | I am your host today, Enosaris. |
| 0:44.1 | I will bumble and stumble my way through this while Derek needs a day. |
| 0:48.2 | And Trevor May is here to help me through that process. |
| 0:50.0 | Thank you for coming on, Trevor. |
| 0:51.6 | Of course, anytime. |
| 0:53.6 | Anytime you need me, I'm here to support. |
| 0:55.5 | So I'll talk as much as you want, you know. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, you please, please talk some more. But we will, we have an interesting show today. We've got some news, some injury news in Houston, a player from Korea that is making some noise about wanting to be posted, a major leaguer using one of Trevor May's preparation techniques, |
| 1:16.6 | and then we'll go through some really important rookies for the stretch run of the playoffs before talking about September bullpens for contenders. |
| 1:23.4 | There's a lot going on there. |
| 1:25.2 | But I guess at the top of the sheet is Spencer Argetti has some elbow inflammation, |
| 1:31.9 | and he is off to the IL. |
| 1:36.4 | Now, I mean, with Luis Garcia back and Christian Javier back, |
| 1:41.1 | I think that the Astros can field a starting rotation just by using the |
| 1:47.9 | guys they have at their disposal right now. But it does bring to mind, you know, I thought |
| 1:53.1 | Ergeti had a chance to join the top three and be part of the playoff rotation. They might |
| 1:59.0 | still have that chance if this is a minor issue. |
| 2:01.9 | But who is your third starter for the asteros? |
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