The Padres & Astros Are Returning to Full Strength at the Right Time
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Padres getting healthy for the stretch run as Yu Darvish will rejoin the rotation this week on the heels of Fernando Tatis Jr.'s activation from the IL and Joe Musgrove's last-season success. Plus, they discuss what they would look for to get in front of a pitcher's hot streak, the recent struggles of Taj Bradley and George Kirby, Justin Verlander's post-IL Stuff+ numbers, and a FAAB hammer used to add Dylan Crews as Eno chases down a title.
Rundown
3:49 The Padres Are Returning to Full Strength
13:35 Kyle Tucker Approaching Activation (Similarities to Tatis' Injury)
20:15 David Bednar Removed From Closer Role
23:14 Looking Beyond Fastball Velocity for Pitchers Heating Up
Related Reading 'Baseball's 'Hot Hand' Is Real: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseballs-hot-hand-is-real/ (Rob Arthur & Greg Matthews)
29:08 What Happened to Taj Bradley?
36:51 What Is Going On With George Kirby?
40:16 Jackson Merrill is a Top ____ Player in 2025
50:36 Justin Verlander's Post-IL Stuff Numbers
53:05 Eno Throws the Hammer to Get Dylan Crews
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, September 3rd, Derek and Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:38.5 | We dig into some recent news you should know, the Padres are getting healthy. We might get Kyle Tucker back soon. The Pirates finally made that change in the closer role. We wondered about that a couple of weeks ago with David Bednar. Got a lot of great questions from our Discord. So a big mailbag segment today. Taking a look at a wide range of questions. Plus, we'll take a look at where the money went over the long weekend and a few |
| 0:42.7 | moves that we made for our own rosters as well. Welcome to September baseball, Eno. Woo. I don't know, |
| 0:51.7 | man. There's two races as I see it. N a wild card, the third one, and Yanks O's for the division. |
| 1:00.7 | Ah, come on now. |
| 1:01.7 | Let's think about this from the broader perspective. |
| 1:04.1 | The Tigers have moved ahead of the Mariners and Fangraphs playoff odds, |
| 1:07.4 | even though we're still talking about two teams below 10%. |
| 1:09.9 | That's still pretty fun. Tigers are playing well. I actually do think of all the divisions, the one that has the most |
| 1:16.2 | juice other than the ones I mentioned is the American League Central. The twins and guardians |
| 1:21.7 | have a fair amount of games left with each other and they're close enough where that that series could change things a lot. |
| 1:29.2 | Yeah, and the Royals are still close enough too to win that division, depending on how |
| 1:32.9 | things play out as well. |
| 1:34.4 | And you've got celebrities showing up at Mets games. |
| 1:38.3 | I saw John Mayer and Steph Curry. |
| 1:40.6 | Gary Cohen saw that Steph Curry was there. |
| 1:43.6 | He's points it out because that's what he does. Steph Curry is here and Keith and Ron are both like whoa nice so Gary just goes the Mets must be playing well and I think it was Keith just goes exactly exactly. So apparently Steph Curry doesn't show up when the Mets are playing poorly. Yeah, no, that would be true. |
| 2:02.1 | The fun thing there is that the numbers actually want to poo-poo me, the poo-pooer. |
| 2:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:11.8 | The numbers say 76% Braves. |
| 2:15.6 | It's surprising, right? |
| 2:17.0 | I mean, especially given the injuries they're dealing with. |
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