2021 Outfield Preview, Part 1
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Kolten Wong's move to Milwaukee, Nelson Cruz staying put in Minnesota, Chris Archer's reunion with the Rays, and Sean Doolittle in the Reds' bullpen, before Part 1 of their 2021 outfield preview.
Rundown
2:22 Kolten Wong Goes to Milwaukee
7:18 Nelson Cruz Returns to Minnesota
13:55 Chris Archer’s Reunion with the Rays
19:18 Sean Doolittle Joins the Reds’ Bullpen
22:00 The Elite Outfielders
29:40 Can Christian Yelich and Cody Bellinger Return to MVP Levels?
35:38 Trust Levels with Kyle Tucker & Luis Robert
41:19 Outfield Targets In the Back of the Top 50
48:48 A Very Surprising Highly Projected Veteran Outfielder
50:33 Comfortable with Trent Grisham at Current ADP?
56:18 Expecting a Rebound From Austin Meadows?
66:43 Victor Robles, Byron Buxton & Ramon Laureano
73:51 Avoiding Lourdes Gurriel & Teoscar Hernández?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, February 3rd. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:19.6 | Eno Seris on this episode. We begin our outfield preview. It's going, February 3rd. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. |
| 0:21.5 | We begin our outfield preview. |
| 0:24.0 | It's going to take two episodes to get through the entire outfield. |
| 0:26.5 | So consider this part one of two. |
| 0:29.5 | We've got some news to get to as we get started on this Wednesday. |
| 0:33.4 | Colton Wong is a brewer, which is not the reason why I'm wearing this hat. |
| 0:37.2 | It is a coincidence. |
| 0:38.6 | It's also very weird to be a fan of a team that has a player joined you after years of being in division and being someone you rooted against. |
| 0:48.1 | But it's a good upgrade for Wong. |
| 0:50.4 | We'll talk about that. |
| 0:51.1 | We'll talk about Nelson Cruz staying in Minnesota. |
| 0:55.8 | Chris Archer is a Tampa Bay Ray again and Sean Doolittle has joined the Reds. So we'll get those news items before |
| 1:01.2 | we start breaking down the outfield. Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? It's going |
| 1:05.8 | good. I was just thinking the other day about this weird thing that happened. |
| 1:12.6 | December 2019, my father-in-law came back from China and was sick and lost his sense of taste and smell and had a bad lung sickness for a month and like fainted once. |
| 1:26.3 | And we all got sick because we were in the |
| 1:28.1 | house with him and we all just got the sniffles and that's weird it's kind of also like a |
| 1:35.1 | funny thing to like think of you know eight nine months into it's like oh right |
| 1:43.2 | right hmm but the good news is You're like, oh, right. |
| 1:45.0 | Hmm. |
| 1:49.3 | But the good news is they've had their first shots. |
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