2021 Pleasant Surprises, Part 2
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their pleasant surprises series by closing out the AL Central with Cleveland and Chicago, and digging through the AL East to discuss Carlos Rodón's renaissance, Cedric Mullins' run at a 30/30 season, Amed Rosario's long-term ceiling, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops Checkout Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. |
| 0:23.4 | Derek and Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this Wednesday. |
| 0:27.3 | Just two days before we both eat a whole lot of crow about the St. Louis Cardinals and Brits' prediction from a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:35.3 | So we've talked about how to cook a hat on this show. |
| 0:38.2 | I think now we're going to work on how we're going to prepare that crow. |
| 0:42.0 | My lean, unlike the hat, which I think should be prepared like kale chips, |
| 0:46.2 | would be a low and slow method to make the crow as as tender as possible. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, make it a stew. |
| 0:54.5 | Yep. Stew you making a stew. Yep. |
| 0:56.1 | Stew you, Cardinals. |
| 0:58.8 | Stu you. |
| 1:00.0 | No, it's fine. |
| 1:01.9 | They're a perfectly average team among two other, I guess, closer to average teams than we thought. |
| 1:10.2 | We can talk about it on Friday, but there's news happening on all these teams that said the |
| 1:17.1 | Reds, the Padres, the Mets. |
| 1:19.6 | I think it's going to be scapegoat season, and it already has started in a lot of those places. |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, started early this year. Kind of like how you always see Christmas trees at Costco a lot of those places. Yeah, started early this year. Kind of like how you always |
| 1:28.8 | see Christmas trees at Costco a lot of week earlier than you did the year before. Pumpkin beer in |
| 1:32.9 | July. Yeah, all of that. That seasonal creep. It's happening inside baseball too. Scapegoat season |
| 1:38.3 | creep where you fire the pitching coach in August. Got to get out in front, you know. |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah. But we're continuing our pleasant surprises series today. So we have a couple teams left in the AL Central before we go head first. Yeah, let's go feet first. It's more comfortable. It's the way you go on a water slide. You go feet first down a water slide. It's a way safer. Yeah, I think you get kicked out of the water park if you go head first down the slide. |
| 2:18.0 | AL East today as well. Let's close it out with the AL Central. We'll go to the Guardians, where I think it's usually going to be pitching that surprises us because they don't often surprise us with the development of hitters, at least not in the last few seasons. |
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