The Biggest Prospect Risers of 2024
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Corey Seager's season-ending surgery and long-term outlook, Kumar Rocker's debut, and an impressive rotation coming together for the Rangers in 2025. Plus, they crowdsource some of the biggest risers among prospects from several members of The Athletic's MLB staff, and discuss a few intriguing names to consider on the waiver wire this weekend.
Rundown
5:58 Corey Seager to Have Season-Ending Hernia Surgery
11:26 Kumar Rocker Debuts, Jacob deGrom Nears Return
19:55 Twins Minor League Catcher Derek Bender Released for Giving Away Pitches
26:27 Project Prospect: (Some) of the Biggest Risers of 2024
33:40 Position Players Reaching Double-A At Age-18 or Younger
42:59 Carlson Reed: Another Pirates Pitching Prospect to Monitor
55:27 Two More Rising Bats
1:01:34 Weekend Waiver Wire Preview
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| 0:00.0 | Buck, the Rates and barrels, it is Friday, September 13th, Derek and Riper, |
| 0:19.4 | Inoceris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:22.1 | We have a weekend waiver preview as we do each and every Friday. |
| 0:26.1 | But we've also got Project Prospect. |
| 0:28.3 | And to do Project Prospect this week, I reached out to some of our friends at The Athletic. |
| 0:33.3 | I asked for risers in as many organizations as possible. |
| 0:38.1 | Many of our writers delivered. |
| 0:39.5 | Got some names from Keith Law in there as well. |
| 0:41.7 | So we'll talk a lot about prospects in the middle part of today's show. |
| 0:45.7 | And we've got some news like we do each and every day before we get to that. |
| 0:49.7 | How's it going for you on this Friday? |
| 0:51.1 | You know what do you got lined up for the weekend? |
| 0:53.5 | Baseball and then some baseball and maybe a little baseball. It is fall ball season in this family. |
| 1:02.5 | So, going from game tonight to literally games all weekend. It'll be fun. Oh, also. Watching games on |
| 1:10.6 | your phone. Yeah. Covering games. All of that season. Oh, also. Watching games on your phone. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.5 | Covering games. |
| 1:12.6 | All of it. |
| 1:12.9 | That season. |
| 1:14.0 | I call it 1,000% baseball season. |
| 1:17.3 | The other thing, |
| 1:19.8 | boxing match Saturday. |
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