2021 Outfield Preview, Part 1

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 81 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? Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper E-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Rates and barrels.
0:46.8	It's Wednesday, February 3rd.
0:48.7	Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode.
0:51.6	We begin our outfield preview.
0:54.0	It's going to take two episodes to get
0:55.4	to the entire outfield. So consider this part one of two. We've got some news to get to as we
1:01.4	get started on this Wednesday. Colton Wong is a brewer, which is not the reason why I'm
1:06.3	wearing this hat. It is a coincidence. It's also very weird to be a fan of a team that has a player
1:13.5	join you after years of being in division and being someone you rooted against. But it's a good
1:19.3	upgrade for Wong. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about Nelson Cruz staying in Minnesota.
1:24.7	Chris Archer is a Tampa Bay Ray again and Sean Doolittle has joined the Reds.
1:29.9	So we'll get those news items before we start breaking down in the outfield.
1:33.8	Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? It's going good. I was just thinking the other day
1:40.8	about this weird thing that happened. 2019 my father-in-law
1:45.1	came back from China and was sick and lost his sense of taste and smell and had a bad
1:53.1	lung sickness for a month and like fainted once and we all got sick because we were in
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