Young hitters and their swing paths

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eno and Jed discuss the big baseball news of the day and they do a big breakdown of some young hitters and their swing paths

Rundown

Ronel Blanco to have Tommy John Surgery

Miguel Amaya out 4-6 weeks with an oblique

Bryce Harper hit by pitch in TJ elbow and leaves game

Corey Seager is back for Texas, but are the Rangers still in it?

Junior Caminero hitter breakdown

Noelvi Marte hitter breakdown

Chase Meidroth hitter breakdown

Andy Pages hitter breakdown

Kristian Campbell hitter breakdown

Brett Baty hitter breakdown

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Hosts: Eno Sarris & Jed Lowrie

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Rates and barrels.
0:14.5	We do not have the sultry voice of Derek Van Riper to guide us today.
0:20.8	We are going to do our best.
0:22.9	I will bangle along.
0:25.1	And Jed Lowry is here to help me as I bungle.
0:28.7	Thank you so much, Jed.
0:30.4	Happy to bungle with you.
0:32.9	You were at some, you said there was a sort of a stressful volleyball game.
0:37.3	Was it a volleyball game that you were attending over the weekend?
0:40.5	Was it, was it high stakes?
0:43.8	Those youth volleyball tournaments, my, you know, 12 you is like, it means nothing and it
0:48.6	means everything.
0:50.9	Like, I, like, I don't think the anxiety level is any higher for parents when you're watching your kids compete.
0:57.4	It's a lot of fun.
0:58.6	And at the end of the day, right, no matter what the outcome is, you know, you just got to make sure you remind them how much you love them and how great they did.
1:07.1	Yeah.
1:07.7	It's so crazy.
1:08.8	We had an end of year scrimmage for my eldest who, you know, he's in juniors, which is like the level past. It's like a 13 under baseball. Yeah, it's a scrimmage. It means nothing. It's like an inner city scrimmage. So it's like all the, you know, the Palo Alto team's coming. It's a potluck. We're supposed to be
1:27.6	hanging out. But my son gets the news that he's the starter. And so, you know, he hasn't got a lot of
1:34.6	chances to pitch this year. So I'm, I'm trying very hard not to be up at the fence and not to be
1:41.4	yelling at a lot of stuff. And, you know, I know his, his stomach is already,
1:45.6	you know, kind of churning. And so I know that, uh, I know that he's worried. And so I'm just
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