2025 AL West Team Previews

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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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 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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1:19.7	Walk to race andrels. It's Wednesday, February 12th. Derek Van Riper, Ino Seris, here with you on this episode.
1:27.9	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.
1:30.6	We got the NL West already in the bank.
1:36.9	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.
1:42.3	Good news, as we mentioned earlier in the week, Eno's starting pitcher rankings have dropped on the Athletic.
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