The Rockies' Pitching is Changing, Can You Trust It?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR open up the mailbag to dig into the Rockies’ surprising success on the mound and what the organization can do to make Colorado a destination for free agent pitchers. Plus, the guys break down Location+, OOPSY fallers, and whether Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. will get back on track.
Rundown:
1:12 Justin Steele has a Setback
8:52 The Most Injured Teams in Baseball
10:45 Pete Fairbanks to the IL
14:21 Trey Yesavage is Back!
19:27 Rockies Surprising Success
27:50 Making Pitchers Better Opens Up More FA Options
34:40 Revisiting Location+
42:41 What is Launch Angle Sweet Spot Percentage?
49:25 Jazz Chisholm Jr.: Time to Worry?
51:37 OOPSY Fallers
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, there is a huge transformation happening with the pitching in Colorado. |
| 0:05.5 | We'll explain how the Rockies are catching up quickly as we open up the mailbag. |
| 0:10.2 | Let's go. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Wednesday, April 29th. Derek Van Riper here with Enos-Saris. |
| 0:25.9 | Lots of news to get to before we open up the mailbag. |
| 0:29.6 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? |
| 0:31.5 | It's going good. It's going good. I've got to go out there and run 10 miles today. |
| 0:35.4 | Yes. Yes, I love it. |
| 0:39.0 | You're so much better at sticking to your running program than I am. I am a once or twice a week in a good week runner going about 5k at a time, |
| 0:45.0 | so you're running about seven miles more than me right now and you're doing it at least one more day a week, |
| 0:50.3 | probably two. So yeah, a lot of work to do on the personal side. My kids are a little bit easier |
| 0:54.5 | to get out of the house. Yeah, I mean, I need to just find ways to chase the little guy around and |
| 1:01.3 | say, even though I didn't run 5K continuously, I got my steps in. You know, I got to make up more |
| 1:07.2 | games where I get exercise while I'm playing. |
| 1:12.1 | But let's get to some news. |
| 1:14.3 | Justin Steele has had a setback. |
| 1:17.1 | He's going to be out until after the All-Star break. |
| 1:21.3 | The Cubs are saying he's got a flexor strain, which popped up while he was rehabbing his way back from Tommy John surgery. |
| 1:24.7 | And the Cubs situation right now on the pitching side is in pretty bad shape, right? |
| 1:30.7 | I mean, you have the Kate Horton injury. He's out for the season. Several key bullpen arms, |
| 1:35.9 | Daniel Palencia, among them, Hunter Harvey's down right now. This staff has been going through it. |
| 1:41.6 | Even Matthew Boyd, who's back from the aisle now now, has had a stint on the IL. |
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