The Push for September Roster Reinforcements
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss an adjustment from Luis Castillo that might help to prolong his peak in 2025 and beyond in the wake of a hamstring injury that could cost him time down the stretch. Plus, they discuss several new relievers in the mix for saves in September, streaming pitchers to consider in the final month, and a few weekend waiver-wire adjustments.
Rundown
4:10 Luis Castillo's Hamstring Injury & Slider Adjustment
9:23 Jesus Tinoco Joins Late-Season Saves Mix
15:50 Nestor Cortes Jr. Follows Clarke Schmidt; Six-Man Rotation for Now?
21:58 September Streamer Watch
33:57 Increasing Trust in David Peterson
42:07 Is There Anything Behind Elly De La Cruz's Home/Road Splits?
45:44 Pitch Tipping v. Other External Cues (Astros Trash Can Banging)
54:50 Where the Money Went: Trevor Story is Back!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, September 9th, Derek and Riper, |
| 0:19.3 | Eno Saris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:22.1 | We've got some baseball news you should know, as is often the case. |
| 0:25.8 | In September, injuries are piling up. |
| 0:28.5 | Opportunities are bubbling up to the surface as a result of that. |
| 0:32.5 | So we'll take a look at some changes around the league. |
| 0:34.8 | Got a bunch of mailbag questions we're going to get to, including one looking at some |
| 0:38.7 | September streamers, some younger starters that have taken on larger roles and their viability |
| 0:43.6 | for their final starts of the season. |
| 0:45.6 | Can we find some value in that group of pitchers? |
| 0:49.0 | Got some interesting stuff about L.E. de la Cruz, a question about tipping versus |
| 0:53.2 | trash can banging. And, of course, |
| 0:55.9 | as we have every Monday, where the money went. We'll get to that later on in the show. |
| 1:00.6 | You know, how's it going for you on this Monday? It's going well. It's going well. It was a nice |
| 1:05.5 | weekend. We said goodbye to Oakland Stadium with the kids on Saturday to the Coliseum. |
| 1:12.2 | And Friday night was a really exciting game. |
| 1:15.6 | It was one of those games where they each scored one in the 10th |
| 1:20.9 | and two in the 11th and one in the 12th |
| 1:24.7 | and was a walkoff in the 13th. |
| 1:28.3 | But it was a fun weekend in the Coliseum, |
| 1:31.3 | a little bit of like, you know, |
| 1:34.3 | there's been a lot of negative energy and I think it's, you know, |
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