2025 AL Central Team Previews

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR continue their 2025 Team Previews Series in the AL Central. Can the Guardians continue to avoid projected decline after flipping Josh Naylor to the D-backs this winter? Will the Royals and Tigers follow-up their impressive runs to the postseason with a return trip to the playoffs? Can the Twins deliver on their status as the team with the highest projected win total in the division? And, while the short-term outlook is still cloudy for the White Sox, will the long-term picture come into focus over the course of the season? Rundown 1:01 2025 Cleveland Guardians Preview 18:48 2025 Kansas City Royals Preview 31:16 2025 Detroit Tigers Preview 47:50 2025 Minnesota Twins Preview 1:03:32 2025 Chicago White Sox Preview 1:11:40 A Selection of Sleepers From the AL Central Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social e-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Note: Win Total Projections for the episode are from Baseball Prospectus' PECTOA system at the time of the recording. Support BP -- they do great work! Current PECOTA Projections: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/ Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris Producer Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.8	It's Wednesday, February 19th.
1:16.8	Derek and Riper here with Enoseres.
1:18.4	On this episode, we continue the team preview series in the American League Central.
1:24.8	We are now heading into our fourth team preview episode. So two more to go next week.
1:30.4	If you missed any of them so far, check them out. The NL Central's, the previous episode in the feed.
1:34.8	We have both of the AL West and NL West in the feed from last week. Tons of ground to cover,
1:42.8	you know, we're not going to have pleasantries.
1:44.8	We're just going to go.
1:46.0	The only pleasantry I'm going to offer is that the Discord is open.
1:49.4	You can join with the link in the show description.
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