2024 Team Previews: Dodgers, Reds & Pirates
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a flurry of news updates from Orioles camp before continuing their Team Preview series, looking at the Dodgers, Reds and Pirates. Is it possible that the Dodgers are slightly underprojected even as a 101-win team in PECOTA? Will the Reds' young pitching stay healthy and deliver enough for them to contend for the NL Central? Can the Pirates turn the corner sooner than expected with Oneil Cruz's return to health and a nice group of young pitchers knocking on the door?
Rundown
1:15 Kyle Bradish's UCL Sprain
6:00 Other Injury Updates From Orioles Camp
9:44 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers Preview
14:09 Build a Bench! Finding the Platoons in LA
27:28 2024 Cincinnati Reds Preview
34:51 Breakout Potential for Elly & Noelvi Marte Despite Wide-Range of PT
49:50 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates Preview
55:09 How Aggressively Will the Pirates Promote Their Pitching Prospects?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, February 15th. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:19.7 | Enosarius. We are one day away from our first Friday live stream of the season. |
| 0:25.4 | In case you missed our last episode, Trevor May, joining us all season long on Fridays throughout the year. |
| 0:30.8 | And we're going live on YouTube at 1 o'clock Eastern each and every week on Friday. |
| 0:36.9 | So we're really excited about that. |
| 0:39.0 | And there's like some very player-specific news that's starting to break. |
| 0:43.7 | It happens every single year. |
| 0:47.0 | You find out pitchers have been dealing with some kind of soreness or some kind of new ailment |
| 0:51.6 | throughout the off season. |
| 0:53.1 | Timetables are thrown off. And we're just left to panic. We don't know what's going to happen. It's chaos. And I just want to dig into that with Trevor on Friday's show. But the news that really surprised everybody on Thursday, something we'll touch on a little bit here to start today's show before we get to some team previews. We have the Dodgers, the Reds, and the |
| 1:11.5 | pirates all on tap for today. Now, Kyle Bradish has a UCL sprain. He is going to begin the season |
| 1:19.6 | on the IAL. This was one of a few Orioles injuries reported on Thursday by Jake Rill. He covers |
| 1:24.9 | the Orioles for MLB.com. |
| 1:30.2 | This is not great for a bunch of reasons. |
| 1:35.2 | We know pitchers sometimes can deal with tears in their UCL and be fine for a long time. |
| 1:40.9 | Mike Elias, the GM of the Orioles, was unwilling to put a timetable on when he thinks Bradish is going to be game ready again. |
| 1:43.4 | So this sounds like it's going to be more than a little while before Bradish is back in the rotation for the Orioles. |
| 1:49.4 | It's kind of wild speculation season right now with the timetable like this. |
| 1:53.2 | This is a pretty big blow for an Orioles team that just went out and added Corbyn Burns a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:58.6 | Yeah, he's going to drop big time in my rankings. |
| 2:01.8 | A sprain is a tear. |
| 2:03.7 | And that's a tear. |
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