Shane McClanahan Injury and Post-Deadline Closer Changes
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Al consider Zack Littell’s fantasy value in light of Shane McClanahan’s trip to the IL, Tyler Wells’ recent demotion, the returns of Brandon Woodruff and Brendan Rodgers and Randal Grichuk’s appeal for 12-team leagues. They also discuss an intriguing group of streamable pitchers and the recent changes in the Mariners’, White Sox’s, Royals’, Mets’ and Cardinals’ bullpens in the aftermath of the trade deadline.
Rundown
0:42 The biggest news of the week
15:47 Hitters of note
27:49 Pitchers of note
33:18 Curtis Mead promotion
37:41 More pitchers of note
41:08 Streamers and two-start pitchers
52:35 Closer corner
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday, August 4th. Derek Riper here with Al Mellgear. |
| 0:20.0 | Getting ready for another weekend of pickups, this time coming out of the trade deadlines. |
| 0:25.3 | We've talked a lot about some of the depth chart movers that are more interesting players now than they were this time last week. |
| 0:33.2 | We're going to try and look past some of those players and find a few other interesting guys that could be |
| 0:37.8 | helpful to your fantasy teams with a lot of leagues having pickups again on Sunday. |
| 0:42.2 | We'll start as we do each and every Friday with some of the biggest news of the week. |
| 0:47.5 | And Al, it's Shane McClanahan going to the IA with forearm tightness as our lead story for today. |
| 0:55.2 | It's interesting too because this overlaps a conversation we had on Tuesday on Project |
| 1:00.9 | about Tosh Bradley getting sent down and kind of wondering how long it would be before he would get |
| 1:05.9 | another look at the big league level. |
| 1:08.3 | With McClanahan's injury, the answer to that question is probably not long. |
| 1:12.3 | The raise have a couple off days on the schedule that enabled them to send Bradley down in the first place. |
| 1:16.9 | But there was a picture we did not discuss on Tuesday. |
| 1:20.2 | Rob DiPietro, poll hitter podcast mentioned this. |
| 1:24.8 | Zach Lattell is actually getting stretched out like a regular starter. |
| 1:28.8 | Just last time out against Houston, he threw five innings, as the raise often do. |
| 1:33.6 | They have messed with Zach Lattel's pitch mix a good bit. |
| 1:37.0 | We've got a nice graphic here that was sent by one of our followers. |
| 1:41.2 | Thomas Nesico at T.J. Stats on Twitter made a nice graphic showing some of the |
| 1:45.6 | differences here. I've got it popped up on YouTube, but the important takeaways are that |
| 1:49.2 | they've lowered his four seam fastball usage, they've increased the slider, and they've added |
| 1:53.9 | a new sweeper. So this is a guy that's very different right now than he has been bouncing |
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