2021 Season Predictions!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR make their predictions for the 2021 season including division winners, playoff matchups, World Series Champions -- plus, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and MVP selections -- and the teams they're most excited to watch this season.
Rundown
1:22 NL West Predictions
8:02 AL West Predictions
17:32 NL Central Predictions
27:23 AL Central Predictions
36:34 NL East Predictions
46:33 AL East Predictions
54:51 Playoff Predictions
62:04 ROY Predictions
66:55 Cy Young Predictions
74:01 MVP Predictions
80:43 Teams We're Most Excited to Watch This Season
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, March 31st. It is prediction palozo. We are going to predict every possible thing we can on this show about the upcoming season. We're one day away. 24 hours from now, the time we're recording this, there will be baseball on all of the screens in my entire apartment. And I really couldn't be happier about that. |
| 0:38.8 | So we have the three host pod today. |
| 0:42.1 | We have Britt. |
| 0:42.7 | We have Eno. |
| 0:43.3 | We have me. |
| 0:44.2 | And we're going to break everything down. |
| 0:45.9 | We got playoff predictions, division winners, across the board, award winners. |
| 0:50.9 | And we're going to talk about some teams we're really excited to watch over the course of the season. So we're going to talk about some teams that we're really excited to watch over the |
| 0:54.7 | course of the season. |
| 0:56.4 | So we're going right at it. |
| 0:58.2 | Know how you doing today. |
| 0:59.2 | We're just going because there's a lot to cover. |
| 1:03.2 | Nobody cares. |
| 1:04.5 | No one cares how we're doing. |
| 1:07.4 | I kind of cared. |
| 1:08.5 | Well, we care about each other. |
| 1:11.9 | The people listening don't care how we're doing in the moment. |
| 1:15.0 | They just want to hear the content. |
| 1:16.9 | There can be a bicycle clown. |
| 1:18.5 | You know, it's that kind of stuff. |
| 1:21.9 | Yes. |
| 1:22.5 | Let's start in the NL West because I like to do the exact opposite of what any other baseball show would do. Every other baseball show would say, let's start in the AL East with the Yankees and Red Sox. No, no, no, no. We're not doing that. We're going to the West Coast first and we're going to the National League. Let's start with you. You know, who is your NL West winner in 2021? West Coast bias. I think the Padres make it a run, but the Dodgers just have superior depth when it comes |
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