2021 Outfield Preview, Part 2

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 87 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 Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Check out Eno's story with Ken Rosenthal about the latest changes to the baseball: https://theathletic.com/2375121/2021/02/08/mlb-changes-baseball-deadening/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Monday, February 8th. Derek Van Riper here with
0:19.8	Enoseres. Lots to get to on this episode,
0:23.1	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
0:41.6	about some changes to the baseball before we dive into part two of our outfield preview.
0:47.6	Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday?
0:49.5	It's good.
0:50.1	It's good.
0:50.7	I actually had a friend over.
0:54.5	What's that like?
0:57.0	One friend.
0:59.0	And we watched the Super Bowl together because we hadn't seen each other in person for months.
1:07.5	I don't I don't remember a damn thing about that game.
1:16.4	You didn't miss anything and like I guess I missed all the I missed all the commercials but
1:20.2	they're just commercials yeah there was a moment where
1:25.9	in the past I've been like I think I'm watching this from their commercials.
1:29.4	And I yell at my kids when they're just sitting there slack-jawed 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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