2024 Team Previews: Braves, Phillies & Mets
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR finish up their 2024 Team Preview series with the Braves, Phillies, and Mets. What's next for the Atlanta lineup after an excellent 2023 that featured five players among the league's 20 biggest risers in wRC+? With quality young pitching depth, is the rotation stronger than ever behind Spencer Strider, Max Fried, and Chris Sale? Will the Phillies get even more from Trea Turner during his second season in Philly? Behind Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola, which starting pitchers are most likely to deliver quality innings? Will the retooling Mets exceed expectations with a potentially underrated lineup and a pitching staff with a few intriguing rebound candidates?
Rundown
4:13 2024 Atlanta Braves Preview
9:25 Jarred Kelenic's Fresh Start in Atlanta
18:01 Good Pitching Getting Even Better?
28:24 2024 Philadelphia Phillies Preview
37:16 Starters of Interest Behind Zack Wheeler & Aaron Nola
44:01 2024 New York Mets Preview
50:11 Buying the Mets' Rebound Candidates in the Rotation (Luis Severino, Sean Manaea & Tylor Megill)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrel. It's Thursday, March 7th, day four of Eno in Arizona. Episode 3 with Eno in Arizona. |
| 0:25.2 | And this is one we're going to finish up our team preview series, the last three teams, all from the NL East. |
| 0:31.5 | We have the Braves, the Phillies, and the Mets on tap for today. So three very interesting teams. |
| 0:39.0 | A lot of other housekeeping to get to real quick. |
| 0:41.4 | We have a listener survey that is up right now. |
| 0:44.3 | We're looking for some feedback about you and your podcast habits. |
| 0:47.6 | The Athletic has put together a survey. |
| 0:49.5 | It should take about 10 minutes. |
| 0:50.4 | The allotted.com slash survey 24 is the URL. |
| 0:53.8 | I'll put that in the show description. |
| 0:55.7 | You can click through on that. Good news is, three lucky entrance will win $100 worth of Amazon |
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| 1:05.9 | and do that. The Discord is open. We'll put the link for that in the show notes as well. Be sure to jump in there if you haven't done so already. |
| 1:14.7 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Thursday? Looks like you did okay after roasting in the sun for an hour in Peoria on Tuesday. |
| 1:21.5 | It's better now that I'm not in my Airbnb. I don't know if anybody saw my tweet, but I'm on the 11th floor of a building and the elevator |
| 1:30.1 | doesn't work, which really sucked yesterday because I ran eight miles and then had to go up and down |
| 1:34.9 | 11th flights of stairs. Actually, it's 12 because of the mezzanine or whatever. There's a pervasive |
| 1:40.6 | smell of meat in my room. I don't know why. It's not super unpleasant, but it is always |
| 1:48.2 | there, which is like kind of gets annoying after a while. Like you're trying to go to bed and |
| 1:51.6 | it smells like meat. The Wi-Fi didn't work for a couple days. And my bed is a sofa bed. I don't |
| 1:58.0 | know why. I'm in like basically what looks like a hotel room. It's in a high rise. It's great. It's a sofa bed. I don't know why. I'm in like basically what looks like a hotel room. It's in a |
| 2:01.4 | high rise. It's great. It's a sofa bed. So despite all those things, I am well rested today, |
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