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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2021 Catcher Preview

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the firing of Jared Porter, and the three-team trade that sent Joe Musgrove to San Diego before breaking down the 2021 catcher pool.  Rundown 0:41 Jared Porter Fired by the Mets 8:36 Joe Musgrove to San Diego in a Three-Team Swap 15:08 J.T. Realmuto Stands Alone (again) 24:02 Willson Contreras & Yasmani Grandal as Optimal Targets? 27:30 The 6-12 Range Catchers 32:32 Is Gary Sánchez Undervalued Despite His Flaws? 38:59 Looking Outside the Top-12 Catchers 43:59 Digging Deep for Players We Like at the Position 50:07 Prospect Catchers of Interest Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to The Athletic for $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, January 19th. Derek Van Riper here with

0:50.9

Enos-Seres. On this episode, we begin our position preview series.

0:55.7

We will start at the catcher position, even though the very best player at that position

0:59.4

doesn't have a team yet.

1:01.0

We had a three-way trade involving the Pirates, Padres, and Mets, Joe Musgrove, among the players

1:09.0

on the move in that deal.

1:10.9

And we have a firing.

1:13.4

Jared Porter, the general manager of the Mets, was fired by the team on Tuesday morning.

1:19.1

You know, we're going to start there.

1:20.2

It's a heavy story.

1:21.9

It is something that as you read the different pieces that come out, anytime there's an

1:27.4

incident in which

1:28.4

there is sexual harassment, which is what happened here, Jared Porter was sending

1:33.1

lewd texts, unsolicited text, to a female reporter. This is several years ago. This was back in

1:39.8

2016. And you start to realize that this is common. This happens a lot. This is something that is way too normal. It is something that our female colleagues are subjected to often. And it makes your blood boil. It makes you feel frustrated and angry.

2:03.9

And I think the thing I've thought about the most since the story broke,

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