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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Using BABIP as an Entry Point for Buy-Low Targets

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the likely season-ending injury for Triston Casas among several other absences that popped up over the weekend including Yordan Alvarez, Shota Imanaga (both on the IL since recording), Freddy Peralta and Corbin Burnes. They also discuss BABIP as a tool to help find buy-low targets and pickups, and marvel at Aaron Judge's .500 BABIP to begin the season before looking at how Coby Mayo might fit on the Orioles' depth chart once they get a infielders back from the IL.


Rundown

3:00 Triston Casas: 2025 Season Likely Over

11:19 Corbin Burnes: Early Skills Decline Followed By Shoulder Inflammation

17:52 Freddy Peralta & Shota Imanaga: Leave Early w/Injuries

22:16 Other News & Notes From the Weekend

28:54 Inspector BABIP: Using BABIP as an Entry Point for Buy Lows & Pickups

43:54 Concerns About Junior Caminero's Launch Angle?

51:27 Favorite In-Season Projections

54:58 Where the Money Went: Light Bidding on Coby Mayo Thanks to Upcoming Crowded Depth Chart?


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

Producer: Brian Smith\

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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0:00.0

He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then...

0:09.0

His game might be over, but yours isn't.

0:14.0

With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on.

0:18.0

Playing a different league with BetFair.

0:24.6

Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost,

0:27.6

tease and season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels.

0:45.2

It is Monday, May 5th, happy Cinco de Mayo to those out celebrating.

0:49.7

Apparently, Eno will not be celebrating on this Monday as a result of a nice weekend. Yeah, it was fun. We had,

0:57.7

I had Matt Denoitz in town and some other friends. Matt Denoitz helped create beer graphs and also

1:03.6

helped create Stuff Plus and runs the database for us. It is now increasingly helping us do all sorts of

1:10.7

stuff with the model.

1:11.6

So it was great to have him in town.

1:13.6

We went to the Giants game and it was the May the Fourth Be with you Giants game.

1:18.6

So we got BB-88 jerseys for the kids.

1:22.6

I went and watched the Warriors game in a bar and then we went to a show.

1:31.1

It was, it was, it was, it was post-rock was the genre.

1:33.8

Yeah, we were trying to figure out what that meant before you went.

1:34.5

So what is that?

1:40.3

Kind of like droney, you know, it's called Godspeed, you black emperor.

1:44.0

You know, like lots of, like more instruments than you might expect.

1:44.8

I think there were like six, seven, eight people up on stage and, you know, not necessarily super, it is rhythmic, but there's

1:52.0

no, you don't, like, there's no chorus or, you know what I mean? They don't make, they don't do

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