2021 Outfield Preview, Part 2
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR get caught up on a busy weekend of signings and trades -- including Trevor Bauer's new deal with the Dodgers, Marcell Ozuna's return to Atlanta, and the Rangers-A's swap -- before wrapping up their preview of the 2021 outfield pool.
Rundown
2:23 Trevor Bauer to the Dodgers
12:21 Yu Darvish vs. Bauer
20:46 Marcell Ozuna return to Atlanta
28:30 A Surprising AL West Deal
39:24 The Baseball is Changing, Again!
47:33 Outfield Preview, Part 2
51:10 In On Dylan Carlson Around Pick 150?
57:26 Intriguing Cheaper Alternatives to Carlson
63:48 Joey Gallo & Punting Batting Average
69:10 Prospects on the Early 2021 Radar
75:03 How DVR's Brain Works
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Monday, February 8th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. Lots to get to on this |
| 0:22.5 | episode, a flurry of moves after we recorded our Friday episode with Britt. Naturally, that's how it goes. |
| 0:29.0 | You plan a podcast for midday. All the news happens late afternoon. A few days go by and, well, |
| 0:34.9 | we're still excited to talk about it anyway. We're going to get to those news items and a story that Eno put together with Ken Rosenthal about some changes to the baseball before we dive into part two of our outfield preview. |
| 0:47.7 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:49.5 | It's good. |
| 0:50.2 | It's good. |
| 0:50.7 | I actually had a friend over. |
| 0:54.7 | What's that like? |
| 0:57.1 | One friend. |
| 0:59.0 | And we watched the Super Bowl together because we hadn't seen each other in person for months. |
| 1:07.6 | I don't I don't remember a damn thing about that game |
| 1:10.8 | you didn't miss anything and like I guess I missed all the |
| 1:16.4 | I missed all the commercials but |
| 1:20.3 | they're just commercials yeah there was a moment where in the past I've been like, |
| 1:28.1 | I think I'm watching this from their commercials, |
| 1:29.7 | and I yell at my kids when they're just sitting there slack-jod |
| 1:33.5 | watching like a E-Trade commercial. |
| 1:36.2 | I'm like, what are you doing? |
| 1:38.5 | Keep moving. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, I'm impressed by E-Trade's ability to rivet your children. |
| 1:44.9 | That's getting them really young if they're getting eight and six-year-olds. |
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