The Dodgers' IL Shuffle Continues & Buster Posey Makes Another Deal
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the recent returns of pitchers Blake Snell and Carlos Rodón, breaking down how the two hard-throwing lefties looked on the mound this weekend. They also preview Mookie Betts’ return to the Dodgers’ lineup Monday and what his presence means for the rest of the offense. Later, the guys analyze the trade that sent Giants catcher Patrick Bailey to the Guardians.
Rundown:
00:35 Weekend at Eno’s
1:45 Blake Snell is Back!
4:29 Mookie Betts Returns Monday
8:30 Carlos Rodón Also Returned
10:33 More Mother’s Day Magic in Milwaukee
11:57 Bat Speed Buckets
18:30 Do Hitters Change More Slowly than Pitchers?
21:15 Ryan Waldschmidt Promoted
33:18 Patrick Bailey Sent to Cleveland
42:25 Bo Naylor to Triple-A
50:04 Tough Starts: Bryce Miller, Tatsuya Imai & Trevor McDonald
56:57 Where the Money Went: Zack Gelof 2.0
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, we have several key starting pitchers back from injuries, |
| 0:04.5 | including Blake Snell, Carlos Rodan, and Nick Ladolo. |
| 0:07.9 | And Ryan Walshmidt, preseason favorite, is up. |
| 0:11.5 | It looks like he's got a job in that Arizona outfield. |
| 0:14.2 | Plus, the Giants make another early season trade. |
| 0:17.8 | Let's go. |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah. season trade. Let's go. Welcome to Rates and Beryl. It is Monday, May 11th, Derek Van Riper, Eno Seris, here with you. |
| 0:33.2 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:35.6 | Good. My wife comes back today. |
| 0:42.0 | It's been so parenting for a while. |
| 0:45.1 | The kids put themselves to bed for the first time ever. |
| 0:56.6 | And there's been some shenanigans, some, some, some taco hell and some, you know, some, some late night oops. |
| 1:00.4 | I think I let them have screen time for four hours, realizations. |
| 1:02.8 | But we made it through. |
| 1:03.7 | We're doing okay. |
| 1:06.3 | The house did not burn down. |
| 1:10.8 | Your boys aren't like Rod and Todd Flanders, where after the allotted amount of screen time, they come up to you and tell you they've had all their screen time. |
| 1:13.5 | No, no, no, never. In fact, they had this thing called just finishing. Just finishing is amazing. Just finishing can last 35, 40 minutes sometimes. |
| 1:25.4 | Oh, I've used that excuse before. They're pros. |
| 1:29.4 | They've made it to the top level of buying themselves more time with an ambiguous excuse. |
| 1:35.0 | Good on them. |
| 1:36.1 | I mean, to have that figured out already at this phase of life. |
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