Searching for Paths to Playing Time & Keeper League Stashes
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss season-ending back surgery for Christian Yelich and the Brewers' search for a left-handed bat to use near the heart of their lineup, Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s elbow injury, a trip to the IL for Byron Buxton, a few prospects yet to debut with an eye toward breaking through for early 2025 debuts, the power ceiling of Junior Caminero, and a few players to consider on the waiver wire this weekend.
Rundown
2:25 Christian Yelich's Season-Ending Back Surgery (Is Garrett Mitchell Good?)
9:27 A Lineup Vulnerable Against Elite Pitching in the Playoffs?
12:45 Jazz Chisholm Jr. To Miss Several Weeks
14:48 Byron Buxton Heads to the IL
17:47 Coby Mayo Returns to Triple-A; Similar Struggles to Henry Davis?
23:57 Searching for Yet-to-Debut Hitters w/Paths to Starting Roles in 2025
32:39 An Early Attempt to Solve the Cubs' Offseason Changes
42:33 Biggest K% Improvers Among Hitters in 2024
46:35 Junior Caminero's Power Ceiling
52:30 Join Us in Arizona for Baseball HQ's First Pitch Conference!
https://www.baseballhq.com/pricing/first-pitch-arizona-2024
53:43 Weekend Waiver Preview
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| 0:00.0 | It's |
| 0:03.0 | Friday, August 13th, Derek Van Riper, Ito Seris. |
| 0:20.0 | It's Friday, and he cracks open a can of sparkling water. |
| 0:25.3 | It is 8.55 in the morning, sir. |
| 0:28.2 | I was buying six cases of LaCroix, and the guy goes, man, you really liked that. |
| 0:34.4 | I was like, I think it's an addiction at this point. |
| 0:39.3 | It just keeps me hydrated and away from other carbonated beverages. |
| 0:44.3 | And it has zero calories. |
| 0:47.4 | I ordered a five pound bag of coffee recently. |
| 0:51.2 | Speaking of addiction. |
| 0:52.1 | It's a big bag of coffee. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | That's a lot of commitment. It's not going to take me that long to grind through five bag of coffee, yeah. That's a lot of commitment. |
| 0:55.1 | It's not going to take me that long to grind through five pounds of coffee either. |
| 0:59.4 | What's your, what's your coffee? |
| 1:00.9 | Maggie, my wife has a very specific coffee. |
| 1:04.2 | I ordered one from a roaster in Milwaukee. |
| 1:07.2 | Oh, so you're willing to try different things with a big bag. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah, we tried a small, you know, 12 ounce, 16 ounce bag first. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't a blind. I don't think I'm quite that bold. Because if you get something you're not into and you have five pounds of it, you're drinking that for a month. Or you're giving it to someone else and hoping they like it. She's a Starbucks French roast, dark, grind your own beans type of gal. |
| 1:30.9 | That's an easy bean to find and probably one you could even get at Costco. |
| 1:36.6 | Actually, there's some Costco politics going on with that right now, I think. |
| 1:40.1 | Lovely. |
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