The Angels’ Rough Week and The Yankees’ Callups
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Al discuss the fallout from Shohei Ohtani’s torn UCL and Mike Trout’s return to the IL, and they also look into the fantasy appeal of several recently-promoted players, including Oswald Peraza, Everson Pereira, Wilyer Abreu and Korey Lee. On the pitching side, DVR and Al consider the types of leagues that Cole Ragans and Ryan Pepiot should be added to, and they talk about the potential for saves in the Athletics’ bullpen.
Rundown
1:27 Bad news for the Angels
9:46 The rest of the week’s big news
24:06 Other hitters of note
35;09 Pitchers to consider
43:24 Closer corner
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Daryl's, it's Friday, August 25th. |
| 0:18.8 | Derek Van Weaver here with Al Melchior digging into the big stories of the week as they impact the fantasy world. |
| 0:25.6 | Trying to figure out what's going to happen going into this weekend as we prepare for another week of Fab. |
| 0:31.6 | And Al, it's kind of fun. |
| 0:33.5 | We're flipping the calendar to September next week. |
| 0:36.0 | Like, I am closing it on the end of my season. |
| 0:39.5 | I have another stretch of paternity leave coming up. |
| 0:42.3 | It's not a second child. |
| 0:43.6 | It's just the remaining paternity leave for the first one. |
| 0:47.5 | So I've got one more week of shows before I'm in that world again. |
| 0:51.9 | And then I'm flipping the calendar of 2024. |
| 0:54.0 | I'll be back in October. |
| 0:55.4 | So it'll be more for the recapping of the whole season and then starting to look ahead |
| 0:59.8 | to next season. |
| 1:00.5 | Hard to believe that only you can count the weekly fabs remaining on one hand in many leagues. |
| 1:06.0 | So we've covered a lot of ground. |
| 1:08.1 | That we have. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.2 | And the column I wrote this week, I had to make a reference to somebody for rest of season. |
| 1:14.0 | And I was like over the season's last five weeks. |
| 1:17.4 | When did that happen? |
| 1:19.3 | So, yeah, I mean, the playoffs in one league already, I had to head league. |
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