2021 Pleasant Surprises, Part 1
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR being a new series, take a team-by-team look at pleasant surprises from the 2021 season. This episode begins at the bottom of the AL West, and wraps up part way through the AL Central. The Mariners have found several regulars via trade in the past year-plus, The A's rotation as a whole has exceed expectations, and the Astros continue to hold a place among the league's best organizations for pitching development.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Topsps Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. |
| 0:23.5 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this Monday afternoon. On this episode, we are going to take a look around the AL for 2021 pleasant surprises. |
| 0:33.9 | Looking for teams that had someone or a few someone step up in ways that we did not |
| 0:39.5 | expect going back to the beginning of the season. We'll take a look forward and see what we |
| 0:43.4 | expect from some of these pleasant surprises in the future. An episode really, I think, probably |
| 0:48.8 | inspired by Cedric Mullins as he's on the brink of a 30-30 season, which is pretty exciting. |
| 0:55.6 | Eno is on mute right now, which is weird, or I can't hear him at least. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm muted because I'm a dang dog. |
| 1:03.7 | Oh, what's going on with the dogs? |
| 1:06.3 | It's fine. It's gone. |
| 1:08.1 | Are they happy again? |
| 1:09.7 | Blame the dogs. |
| 1:11.3 | They pooped in the living room again. |
| 1:14.2 | No, what? |
| 1:15.2 | Why? |
| 1:17.4 | They pooped in the bedroom again. |
| 1:20.2 | As it gets colder, I think they're just lazy and they don't want to poop outside in the cold. |
| 1:26.1 | And so they come running in and they go poop in the living room, which is nice and warm. |
| 1:30.1 | I mean, they're small dogs and they don't have long hair, but it's not cold here. |
| 1:35.3 | I hate to be the one to break this to your dog. |
| 1:40.0 | It's just not. |
| 1:42.5 | Relatively cold. |
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