Pitching Trade Targets & Weekend Waiver Wire Considerations
5/1/20261 hr 8 min
Eno and DVR return for another Fantasy Friday—starting with some food takes, including Eno’s “try everything once” mindset and DVR revealing he’s never had oysters. From there, they shift to baseball, breaking down potential fantasy trade targets among starting pitchers and identifying arms to buy low or sell high. The guys close out the show by discussing a new Athletics closer: Jack Perkins.
Rundown:
1:29 Eno's Dining Philosophy
3:28 The Truth Is: Midwest Food Creations Are Usually Good
7:45 Injury Updates: Luis Robert Jr., Trevor Rogers, Brandon Woodruff & Garrett Crochet
22:10 A...
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First 90 secondsDerek VanRiper· Host0:00
Today on Rates and Barrels, it's Fantasy Friday. We dig into some injuries that are shaking up playing time around the league. We look at some starting pitchers you should consider trading for in the wake of some slow starts, and a new closer has emerged for the A's. Let's go. [upbeat music] Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It is Friday, May 1st, Derek Van Riper here with Eno Sarris. Guess what? You know, it's May. That means you can freak out about your fantasy teams, your Major League teams being off to slow starts, or you can freak out about a grown man in America, in his 80th year on the planet, eating a chicken wing for the first time in his life, in the booth. Of course, that's Jim Palmer. That's mind-blowing to me for so many reasons. I did learn, reading some of the backstory, he's pretty health-conscious, so he'd never had fried chicken or a chicken wing before, and yet I still think that's impossible. He was a professional ballplayer. Those guys are on the road all the time. There is only junk food to eat in some places.
Eno Sarris· Host1:12
What was he eating back then?
Derek VanRiper· Host1:12
I imagine Jim Palmer in his era being surrounded by teammates, chugging pitchers of beer and eating mountains of chicken wings, and I can't believe that curiosity or just pure hunger didn't get him to pick one up and try it before this week.
Eno Sarris· Host1:27
My whole philosophy is try