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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2025 AL West Team Previews

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR continue their 2025 Team Preview series in the America League West! Is the Astros’ control of the division finally winding down? Are the Rangers primed for another deep October run with a healthier roster in 2025? Can the Mariners hit enough to support their elite rotation? Can the A’s close the gap on the three teams ahead of them, and have the Angels improved enough to do the same after a disappointing 2024?


Rundown

2:26 2025 Houston Astros Preview

14:15 2025 Texas Rangers Preview

32:15 2025 Seattle Mariners Preview

44:05 2025 Sacramento Athletics Preview

59:32 2025 ‘Los Angeles’ Angels of Anaheim Preview

1:12:17 A Selection of Sleepers From the AL West


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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

Producer Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, February 12th, Derek and Riper, Ino Seris here with you on this episode.

0:17.7

We continue with our 2025 team preview series. We move into the AL West. The series just started up on the episode before this one. We got the NL. West already in the bank. We're lining up for two divisions per week. So we got two more weeks of previews wrapped around all the other great shows we're doing. Good news. As we mentioned earlier in the week, Eno's starting pitcher rankings have dropped on The Athletic. If you don't have a subscription, Theatletic.com slash rates and barrels will get you one. From there, check out the ranks. We're going to discuss those on Friday because we're going to focus a lot on the pitchers that Eno loves in 2025. Yay!

0:55.5

There's already mistakes.

0:56.6

I'm sorry.

0:57.7

I'll clean them up.

1:00.2

I didn't share the Google Docs. I woke up to a ton of Google Doc requests.

1:03.6

Somebody in Discord spotted that even before I was awake.

1:07.1

And then Drew Rasmussen's not in there.

1:09.1

If you're listening, he's probably around 50, I think around Clay Holmes, somebody with a grid projection, not many innings, maybe some role question.

1:18.0

And yes, Max Scherzer is a Blue Jay.

1:23.2

How the Sausages made with rankings deserves its own episode at some point in the future but we

1:28.4

will save that for now you mentioned the discord it's really hard actually just to get all the pitchers

1:34.2

because you'll do a projection system right and then you'll have some holes in it you'll do

1:39.4

what who played last year and that'll have some holes in it. Then you could do like depth charts.

1:44.4

Like I do,

1:44.8

I call him through like four times just to make sure I have all the pitchers. And somehow Drew Rasmussen, maybe he's on a depth chart somewhere as a reliever, didn't play that much last year. I don't know what it is, but he just doesn't show up in my, so there you go. It happens. But you mentioned the Discord. You can join the Discord with the link in the show description.

1:42.4

A lot of conversation there.

1:43.6

We have specific team channels.

1:44.8

We've got strategy channels for Facebook. So there you go. It happens. But you mentioned the Discord. You can join the Discord with the link in the show description.

2:01.5

A lot of conversation there.

2:02.7

We have specific team channels. We've got strategy channels for Fantasy. All sorts of good stuff in there. We'll try to share some more of the graphics from the show there. So if you're not watching us on YouTube, you can still see some of the visuals that we're putting up because they may be insightful for you. even if you're just listening and you check them out later,

1:59.4

Discord link in the show description.

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