2024 Team Previews: Astros, Mariners & Rockies
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their Team Preview series, looking at a few key questions for all 30 clubs as spring training approaches. Part 2 of the series wraps up the AL West with the Astros and Mariners, before examining the ongoing struggles of the Rockies at the bottom of the NL West.
Rundown
0:54 Jose Altuve Signs a Five-Year, $125M Extension w/Astros
5:05 2024 Houston Astros Preview
18:25 Paths to a Hunter Brown Breakout
25:56 2024 Seattle Mariners Preview
33:06 Bryan Woo's Need for a New Approach Against Lefties
43:27 2024 Colorado Rockies Preview
55:38 Will Brenton Doyle's Glove Carry Him to Everyday Playing Time?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, February 7th. Derek Ben-Riper here with Enosaris. |
| 0:19.6 | Continuing our team preview series today, three teams on the rundown. |
| 0:23.7 | We have the Astros, the Mariners, and the Rockies. |
| 0:29.5 | Yay. |
| 0:32.9 | It's the three-headed dragons, the two fierce ones. |
| 0:38.3 | Right, two fierce and one kind of looking around. |
| 0:40.6 | Like, wait, which way are you two looking? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm not even looking the same direction. |
| 0:43.3 | With the googly eyes. |
| 0:46.3 | Perfect description of what we have in front of us. |
| 0:48.9 | But once again, the universe has dealt the rundown, a small gift. |
| 0:53.6 | We have some breaking news, and it involves |
| 0:56.4 | the Astros. Jose Al Tuvei has signed a five-year, $125 million extension with the Astros. |
| 1:04.7 | I don't think I've ever seen a five-year extension for a second baseman who's currently |
| 1:09.0 | 34 years old. This is going to cover his age 35 to |
| 1:12.1 | 39 seasons. It pretty much ensures that El Tuva can finish his career as an Astro. And it also came |
| 1:19.1 | with some comments from their owner, Jim Crane, that as long as he's the owner, the window will be |
| 1:23.9 | open. So, you know, you like to hear all these things. These are things that make |
| 1:28.3 | you very happy if you're an Astros fan. And I think the question for us to wrestle with is, |
| 1:33.8 | how do we think Jose Altuve is going to age? It was an injury last year, fluke injury that cost |
| 1:38.6 | a lot of time, only played 90 games. So I'm not looking at what happened last year and saying |
| 1:43.1 | durability is a major |
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