Tons of weekend news & Where the Money Went with Eric Samulski

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Eno is joined by Eric Samulski of Rotoworld to talk about a busyyyy weekend of news. A lot of call-ups, injuries and moves this weekend. Also, they talk about where the money went in some of the moves of the weekend.

Rundown

4:57- Jac Caglianone called up by KC

9:40- Corbin Burnes is hurt

14:57- Mookie Betts fractures toe

20:54- Varsho & Santander on the IL for Toronto

24:27- Mick Abel is back for Philly

28:15- Eovaldi heads to the IL

35:20- Yordan Álvarez return delayed

43:45- Coby Mayo gets called back up

47:10- Cole Young called up by Seattle

56:05- Possible moves for the Giants?

57:15- Rockies make a move at 1B

58:12- Jobe heads to the IL

1:00:14- Where the Money Went

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Rates and Burials, and yes, I am still hosting Derek needs one more day to figure it out.
0:20.5	And so we are so blessed today. We get Eric Smolski in.
0:25.1	And I'm so happy. Eric Simulsti is over at Rona World, a place that I used to to work. I love that
0:30.7	place and I love Eric Smolsi's work there. He also does on the corner with Nick Pollock.
0:36.4	We both have podcasts with Nick.
0:39.6	That's fun.
0:40.5	You guys go through all the pictures on his rankings on a weekly basis, all the risers and followers and all their interesting things.
0:45.9	So that's a great episode for people if they want to listen to that.
0:49.6	Does chats over at Rora to World.
0:51.6	Eric, thank you so much for coming in and helping me do this show today.
0:56.1	I need all the help I can get without Derek. I'm thrilled to be here. You know, as you know,
1:01.8	this space is filled with podcasts. You and Derek are one of the ones I try to listen to literally
1:07.8	every episode. So I'm thrilled to be here. And yeah, one time it was
1:12.2	cool to have a podcast with Mick Pollock. But now there's like, what, nine of them? Like he has
1:16.8	so many. It's no longer so special. He's a special dude. It's all right. It's fun. All of those,
1:23.7	all of the, the collaborations that he does. Oh, my God. He's one of the busier men
1:29.1	in the business. But yeah, thanks for coming on. I hope you had a good weekend. I am in the
1:35.4	throes of, I know everybody wants to hear about my sinus infection. I got the antibiotics.
1:41.8	Finally. Geez. So I'm kind of turning the corner. Summer has started. What is summer
1:47.3	starting in the Smolski household mean? I met up with a bunch of my college teammates. We went to
1:53.9	Cleveland, Ohio this weekend for the D3 College World Series to see our old coach and our old
1:59.2	team. So it was in Cleveland for the D3 College
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