Trade Deadline Recap: Yusei Kikuchi, Jack Flaherty & Lane Thomas on the Move
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Britt recap the final moves leading into the 2024 MLB Trade Deadline including the Astros' addition of Yusei Kikuchi, the Padres' continued push to improve their roster with another bullpen upgrade in Tanner Scott, Jack Flaherty's move to the Dodgers, and a busy Trade Deadline window for the Rays and Marlins, who cashed in at an opportune time as sellers.
Rundown
2:54 Yusei Kikuchi to the Astros in a Four-Player Swap
6:17 Tanner Scott to the Padres in a Large Trade with Miami
9:15 Trevor Rogers to the O's as Part of Marlins' Massive Deadline
19:45 Lane Thomas to the Guardians
25:37 Jack Flaherty to the Dodgers
30:13 The Rays and Marlins As Deadline Winners From Selling Position
37:51 Which Buyers Did Well?
44:23 Lucas Erceg and Bullpen Arms on the Move
52:10 Surprised the Angels Didn't Deal Away More Players?
1:00:53 Puzzling Deadlines
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:15.8 | It is Tuesday, July 30th, happy trade deadline day. |
| 0:20.3 | Derek Riper, Enoseres here. |
| 0:22.2 | Special shout-up to the live hive watching us on YouTube. |
| 0:25.6 | Britch Roli will join us a little bit later in the show. |
| 0:28.4 | We're going to cover everything happening up to today's deadline, kind of picking up where we left off yesterday, Enno. |
| 0:34.8 | And I think if we count the whole window going back the last week, |
| 0:39.1 | 10 days, this has been a great trade deadline. There are tons of active teams. And I think this |
| 0:44.7 | is the kind of day where we might even get a few last minute deals of some note too. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, the pirates are sneaking a couple position players in under the wire. |
| 0:54.9 | They're buying. |
| 0:56.2 | The pirates are buying. |
| 1:01.3 | The Marlins doing the, maybe the quick rebuild, making a ton of moves, a couple of huge trades for them. |
| 1:02.0 | So many players. |
| 1:03.4 | Like, it's almost like you got to, like, really take out a microscope on their 40 |
| 1:09.1 | man. |
| 1:09.6 | And, like, we'll have to look at their you know depth charts and |
| 1:12.5 | figure out who's going to play this year and who's going to play later and pretty exciting i |
| 1:18.0 | i also think though that like maybe it is due to the hype machine and some of the stuff |
| 1:25.7 | you know going into it where we want to put bigger |
| 1:29.4 | names on the block than are actually on the block. But, you know, if you're going to sit here |
| 1:33.6 | and tell me that Tarek Scouble and Garrett Crochet and Blake Snell are going to, you know, |
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