2025 AL East Team Previews
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR finish their 2025 Team Previews Series in the AL East. Did the Yankees find an ample pivot in their offseason plans after Juan Soto left for the Mets? The Orioles' window is still open, but will their starting pitching hold up after the loss of Corbin Burnes this winter? Is the Red Sox's pitching underrated? And, will the Rays and Jays close the gap on the rest of the division after disappointing seasons a year ago?
Rundown
3:06 2025 New York Yankees Preview
20:21 2025 Baltimore Orioles Preview
35:09 2025 Boston Red Sox Preview
48:35 2025 Tampa Bay Rays Preview
1:04:38 2025 Toronto Blue Jays Preview
1:12:54 A Selection of Sleepers From the AL East
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| 0:27.6 | tease and season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:45.3 | It is Wednesday, February 26. |
| 0:47.4 | Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, here with you with the sixth and final installment of our 2025 team previews series, we saved the AL East for last. |
| 0:59.2 | And, you know, we have a meeting right at the end of the show. |
| 1:02.3 | So no time for pleasantries. |
| 1:04.2 | I don't care how your Tuesday went. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm just going to get right after it. |
| 1:07.8 | Not well. |
| 1:08.3 | Your Wednesday's going worse, though. |
| 1:12.1 | Pop-Tart addictions. |
| 1:13.7 | Just a lot of yelling for the morning. |
| 1:15.8 | I was also thinking just really quickly. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, I was thinking what would be cool to have like a never-ending supply of? |
| 1:22.0 | And I thought, well, a never-ending beer would be great, but it would get warm and that would suck. |
| 1:26.7 | So, never-ending supply of dog poop bags. |
| 1:30.7 | That's pretty good, yeah. I've, um... How many times have you gone on the walk and they poop and you |
| 1:35.8 | realize you don't have the bag? Well, the worst one was on Christmas morning this year because no one's |
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