Waiver Wire Pickups: Is Payton Tolle a Must Add?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR celebrate Fantasy Friday as they break down some of the league’s top young arms and hitters who could be available on the open market. Then, they’re joined by the show’s Senior Hot Dog Correspondent and Ottoneu founder Niv Shah to talk closers—and deliver his latest hot dog reviews.
Rundown:
1:46 Francisco Lindor Placed on IL
4:18 Waiver Wire Bats to Consider
12:09 Nathan Church Getting a Look in St. Louis
13:50 Buying Into Leody Taveras?
16:48 Atlanta’s Young Starters
21:37 Payton Tolle in Boston
26:56 Connor Prielipp Debuting in Minnesota
35:22 Riley Cornelio’s Role with the Nats
39:33 Christian Scott Returned to Triple-A
43:13 Closer Carousel
52:51 Niv Shah Joins the Show
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, it's Fantasy Friday. |
| 0:02.5 | We discuss how you should approach the starting pitching prospects that have entered the scene over the past week, |
| 0:07.3 | a few hitters that might give you a boost, and another round of closer chaos. |
| 0:12.6 | Let's go. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to Rates and B. It's Friday, April 24th. Derek Van Riper here with Enos Seris. |
| 0:34.6 | Later on in the show, we are joined by our senior hot dog correspondent Niv Shaw to get the latest from Nats Park. |
| 0:36.2 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Friday? |
| 0:37.5 | Pretty good. |
| 0:44.4 | Excited to go to Wondrous and Tenma brewing tonight after I do some interviews at the ballpark. |
| 0:51.7 | So we're going to do Little League, of course, and my wife's birthday. |
| 0:55.3 | So a bunch of things on the schedule this weekend. |
| 0:56.2 | Nice. |
| 0:58.1 | Well, happy birthday to Maggie. |
| 0:59.9 | Hope that's a fun celebration. |
| 1:02.4 | Sounds like a great weekend all around. |
| 1:04.9 | I think I'm going to fire up the grill for the first time. |
| 1:08.4 | We hit the 60 plus degree range for a few days in a row. |
| 1:11.3 | Not that it stops me when it's cold or windy or even snowy. Like there's ways to grill anytime you want here, but to enjoy the process of it and actually |
| 1:17.2 | sit out there with a beverage and just be outside for an extra 20 minutes making dinner. I think |
| 1:22.5 | that's, that's happening this weekend. That is on my to do list. A lot of ground to cover. So a little lighter on |
| 1:30.5 | news, a little heavier on debuts and some guys we're thinking about picking up on our fantasy teams as |
| 1:35.3 | the weekend approaches. The good news is if you're not in a weekly league, you can pick these guys up |
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