Why the Cubs Should Go All-In
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a big weekend for the Cubs, who took two of three from the Dodgers in Los Angeles including a blowout on Saturday night, but revealed that Justin Steele will have season-ending arm surgery. They discuss the need for more pitching in Chicago even prior to Steele's injury, and add the Cubs to the Sandy Alcantara sweepstakes. Plus, they discuss what a Pete Crow-Armstrong extension might look like down the road after the two sides put negotiations on hold, and look at changes for Joe Boyle and where the money went in fantasy baseball leagues this weekend.
Rundown
6:06 Justin Steele to Undergo Season-Ending Arm Surgery
12:42 Pete Crow-Armstrong and a Future Extension with Cubs
16:59 Eno's Concerns About Ben Brown's Two-Pitch Mix
19:48 CJ Abrams' Nice Start Slowed by IL Stint
23:51 Other News & Notes: Changes for Joe Boyle?
33:43 Level of Concern with Christian Walker, Mark Vientos, Jake Burger and Matt Shaw
40:53 The Early Struggles of Tomoyuki Sugano
46:29 Where the Money Went: Making Sense of Weekend Waiver Pickups
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:13.7 | It is Monday, April 14th. |
| 0:15.9 | Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:19.1 | We got some big injury news for the Cubs. Justin Steele is going to miss the rest of the season. We'll dig into the implications of that. And talk about a Cubs team that is putting a lot of runs on the board. We've got a return from Spencer Strider coming up later on this week. Got a few mailbag questions. We're going to take a look back at where the money went this weekend, talk about a few players |
| 0:39.4 | that are on the move from a fantasy perspective and see if there's some goodness to come from |
| 0:44.6 | the recently added batch of players. |
| 0:47.7 | Before we get into that, Eno, how was your weekend? |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, that's pretty good. |
| 0:51.6 | The kids were away, so I got most of my taxes done and watched movies and finished White Lotus and also went to fight club. |
| 1:04.6 | Normal, normal, normal what? You went to a fight club? |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah. I went to a thing that was called an open ring fight club that was put on by a biker. |
| 1:17.5 | I don't know what the word is that comes after that. |
| 1:19.8 | A biker group. |
| 1:20.8 | Group. |
| 1:21.3 | I think group is the club. |
| 1:23.0 | Club. |
| 1:24.0 | The club. |
| 1:24.6 | East Bay Rats put on a, they had bands and they had an open ring fight club. |
| 1:30.9 | And what was interesting was there were definitely people there that had trained, you know, that were trained in boxing. |
| 1:36.1 | The easiest way to see is who kept their hands up or not. |
| 1:40.8 | There were definitely people that had been trained in boxing. |
| 1:43.9 | And I think, I didn't have this confirmed, but I bet they got a little bit of money and it was like sort of semi pro level. |
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