2025 AL Central Team Previews
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 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
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:27.6 | tease and season, exclusions's Wednesday, February 19th. |
| 0:47.1 | Derek and Riper here with Inoceris. |
| 0:48.7 | On this episode, we continue the team preview series in the American League Central. We are now heading into our fourth team preview series in the American League Central. |
| 0:55.0 | We are now heading into our fourth team preview episode. |
| 0:59.0 | So two more to go next week. |
| 1:01.0 | If you missed any of them so far, check them out. |
| 1:03.0 | The NL Central's, the previous episode in the feed. |
| 1:05.0 | We have both of the AL West and NL West in the feed from last week. |
| 1:13.3 | Tons of ground to cover, you know. |
| 1:15.0 | We're not going to have pleasantries. |
| 1:15.9 | We're just going to go. |
| 1:19.6 | The only pleasantry I'm going to offer is that the Discord is open. |
| 1:21.4 | You can join with the link in the show description. |
| 1:25.8 | We've got team channels, strategy channels, everything you could want all in one place. |
| 1:29.1 | So come hang out with us and some other rates and barrels listeners. |
| 1:36.2 | We begin as we do on every one of these team previews at the top of the AL Central from last year with the Cleveland Guardians. |
| 1:38.8 | And yet again, we are asking the same kind of question. |
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