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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Takeaways From Saberseminar & A Packed Weekend of Baseball News

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Zack Wheeler's Thoracic Outlet Syndrome diagnosis and the lengthy timetable for his recovery, Aaron Nola's return to the Phillies' rotation, an eight-year extension for Samuel Basallo and whether that will prompt the Orioles to trade Adley Rutschman this winter. Plus, Eno shares a few interesting takeaways from this year's Saberseminar in Chicago, and they examine a new offering from Shane Bieber, who pitched well in his first start back from the IL for the Blue Jays. 


Rundown

1:30 Zack Wheeler: Diagnosed with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

8:40 Aaron Nola: Sharp in Second Start Back from IL

12:27 Samuel Basallo's Eight-Year Extension w/Orioles

21:32 Yordan Alvarez: Scheduled to Return to Tuesday

24:39 Eno's Pitching Mechanics: Side View

28:50 Saberseminar Takeaways

34:33 Wind Applied Metrics & A Ridiculous Homer

43:56 Pitchers Forcing Bad Swing Decisions

51:13 Shane Bieber Is Back with a Kick-Change


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Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, August 25th.

1:07.0

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

1:08.9

On this episode, we have a ton of news to catch up on.

1:13.4

We learned that Zach Wheeler has been diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome.

1:17.5

We'll talk about the long-term outlook with his recovery.

1:20.2

Now that we know that that's part of the injury package there,

1:23.1

Samuel Bessayo signed an extension over the weekend.

1:25.9

I think any time we pre-record a Friday episode, which is very rare, it guarantees chaos on Friday morning.

1:33.3

So one of the game's most exciting prospects, already getting a long-term deal that buys out a couple of free agent eaters with Baltimore.

1:41.8

We're going to take a look at where the money went.

1:43.5

Shane Bieber was a big pickup this weekend because he is back. He looked really good as well. We'll break that down. So tons and tons of news. Plus, Eno was on a plane to Sabre Seminar and back. We'll talk about some of the interesting presentations Eno saw during his time there. So this episode might be eight hours long.

2:02.6

I don't know.

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I'm apologizing to our producer, Brian Smith, in advance.

2:07.4

Eno, let's start.

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