2024 Team Previews: Yankees, Royals & White Sox
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their Team Preview series with the Yankees, Royals and White Sox. With the addition of Juan Soto to the lineup, will the Yankees make good on their projection and win the AL East in 2024? Can Clarke Schmidt find a solution against left-handed hitters? Are we buying another improvement in the Royals' young group of hitters? Is there any help coming through the system to bolster the team's rotation? And just how bad is the rebuild going to be in Year 1 for the White Sox?
Rundown
1:17 2024 New York Yankees Preview
9:32 Will Alex Verdugo Tap Into More Power at Yankee Stadium?
19:06 Clarke Schmidt's Struggles Against Lefties
26:32 2024 Kansas City Royals Preview
30:37 Maikel Garcia's Sleeper Case
42:03 2024 Chicago White Sox Preview
50:16 Are Potential Surprises Coming From This Group of Pitchers?
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| 0:54.0 | We've got team previews. |
| 0:55.3 | Three more teams to go today. |
| 0:57.2 | The Yankees, the Royals, and the White Sox. |
| 1:00.0 | Yes, we closed the book on the AL Central and we opened the book on the AL East. |
| 1:04.7 | I figured it was the only way to try and get more than Royals and White Sox fans to listen to the team preview was to glue the Yankees to the front of it. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah, we didn't want all the A at least in one go. |
| 1:19.2 | No, you got to spread the fun around a little bit. |
| 1:21.6 | Speaking of spreading the fun around, the Discord is popping. |
| 1:25.2 | It is open. |
| 1:25.7 | We'll put the link again in the show description. So be sure to jump in there if you haven't done so already. |
| 1:31.9 | That'll be a new invite link because I had somebody in my DMs saying the invite link was gone again. |
| 1:37.6 | But we're doing new ones in each of them, right? We'll keep making a fresh one. I'll try to make the new one good for longer. |
| 1:47.3 | That's the goal anyway. Let's get right to it. |
| 1:53.7 | Let's start with the Yankees. A really interesting team from a projection standpoint, one that actually had a winter that most of the fan base should be happy about because, hey, Yankees fans, you got Juan Soto. |
| 2:00.9 | Look at him. Looks great in pinstripes, not even wearing pinstripes in the picture. |
| 2:04.5 | You got two first rounders from a fantasy perspective. |
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