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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Weekend Roster Decisions & Waiver Wire Considerations

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the recent struggles of Royce Lewis, Jorge Polanco's cool down in May following a torrid start to the season, comps for Parker Meadows now that he's returned from the IL, Ronny Mauricio's path to short-term playing time with Mark Vientos on the IL expectations for Eury Pérez as he returns from Tommy John surgery, and other weekend waiver-wire and roster decisions to consider, before checking in with Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah about two recent 'Taste of the Majors' adventures at Nationals Park.


Rundown

2:17 News & Notes: Kyle Tucker, Francisco Lindor, Josh Naylor, Brandon Woodruff, and Shane Bieber

12:48 Hitters of Interest for Jac Caglianone Week

14:39 Royce Lewis & Matt McLain Falling Off Shallow League Rosters

20:09 Parker Meadows Comps From ATC

25:33 Cole Young and Jacob Melton as Deep League Targets?

28:31 Eury Pérez's Upcoming Return & Shallow League Movers

33:59 Lance McCullers: Will Approach With Limited Fastballs Work?

47:57 Senior Hot Dog Correspondent Niv Shah Joins the Show!

1:01:20 A Chicago Hot Dog at Nationals Park Isn't a Chicago Dog At All

1:18:15 Deeper League Pitchers on the Radar


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Transcript

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0:30.6

... Welcome to Rates and Beryl.

0:44.8

It is Friday, June 6th.

0:46.4

Derek Van Riper, I know Seros, here with you on this episode.

0:50.1

We'll get you ready for weekend waiver pickups.

0:53.3

We're going to continue with our new format, looking at players at various roster rates,

0:57.3

trying to determine which routes you should choose.

0:59.8

Lots of different options out there.

1:01.7

Some really intriguing names actually starting to get dropped off of shallow league roster.

1:05.6

So we'll spend some time on those players.

1:08.0

There is some baseball news you should know.

1:09.9

So we'll get to that in just a

1:11.2

couple minutes as well. And we have hot dogs of the world, taste of the majors. Niv Shaw joins us

1:18.5

later on in the show with a double header. Two dog reviews coming up a little bit later on today,

1:25.0

so we're looking forward to that. You know, you went to the ballpark yesterday and you weren't working. How was it? It was good. I mean, the dog I had wasn't great, but we don't need a full review of that. When you don't grill it quite enough and it's just not, it doesn't pot, like the skin isn't like, you know, like kind of crunchy. No snap. Yeah, it didn't snap.

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