Starting Pitchers that Eno Loves in 2025
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR catch up on a few intriguing baseball news items from the first week of spring training before diving into Eno's recently released 2025 Starting Pitcher rankings to discuss several pitchers that Eno loves in 2025.
Rundown
1:13 Ronald Acuña Jr.: 'Taking it Easy' on the Basepaths After Second ACL Tear
5:37 Francisco Alvarez: Big Swing Changes This Winter
12:48 Shane McClanahan: No Restrictions This Spring
17:39 Buying Into Hunter Brown's Step Forward in 2024
22:31 Similar Vibes Around Grayson Rodriguez?
26:57 Some Love for Luis Castillo?!
31:33 Spencer Strider and Leaning Into League Rules
35:26 Clarke Schmidt: Can a Full-Season Like 2024 Happen?
39:35 Why Eno Believes in Clay Holmes as a Starter
48:24 Other Late Pitching Options Getting Love in the Rankings
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, it's Burroughs Friday, February 14th, Derek and Riper Idoceras here with you. Yeah, it's Valentine's Day, and hopefully you realize that before you heard it from me. |
| 0:22.3 | But if you're hearing this on Friday afternoon and frantically scrambling to salvage the day for some reason, |
| 0:27.8 | my thoughts are with you. |
| 0:29.3 | I hope you can find some way to make the people in your life happy. |
| 0:32.8 | On this episode, we are going to discuss Eos recently released 2025 starting pitcher rankings. |
| 0:39.9 | We'll look at some pictures that Eno loves in 2025. |
| 0:42.5 | We'll look at some guys that maybe are a little overvalued by the market, at least in |
| 0:47.5 | Eno's eyes. |
| 0:48.2 | We'll dig into why that might be the case. |
| 0:50.4 | We've got some spring news and notes to get to before we start on the news. |
| 0:54.9 | Just a heads up, you can join our Discord, a lot of lively chatter in there. If you're looking for a fantasy |
| 0:59.7 | lead to plan, we've got a channel for that, you're looking for some news rankings, looking |
| 1:03.9 | to talk about a particular team, all of that under one roof. You can join with the link in the |
| 1:08.9 | show description. You know, I think we're at the very |
| 1:11.7 | fun part of spring training where every news item feels like it matters, even though it might |
| 1:17.2 | not matter. So it's sort of a game of reading between the lines in some cases. I did my best |
| 1:22.6 | to pull my favorite notes as I looked at Rotowire this, and was trying to gather up the best of the best. |
| 1:29.2 | And I want to start with Ronald Acuna Jr. |
| 1:31.7 | This is a tweet that David O'Brien covers the Braves Athletic put out. |
| 1:36.6 | Acuna said he's planning to take it easy on the bases after tearing the left ACL in May. |
| 1:42.9 | Of course, that's his second torn ACL, tore the right one a couple of years back. |
| 1:46.7 | And he said he's running at about 90 to 95 percent, but he feels more stable on the knee than he did coming back from his first surgery. |
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