2025 First Base Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR begin this episode with a few memories of the legendary Bob Uecker, who passed away Thursday at 90 years old.The position preview series continues at first base, where top-end production remains, and middle-round players to avoid are aplenty.
Rundown
0:26 Remembering Bob Uecker
7:18 ADP Tier 1 -- Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bryce Harper, Freddie Freeman & Matt Olson
25:44 ADP Tier 2 -- Pete Alonso, Salvador Perez, Christian Walker & Josh Naylor
35:07 ADP Tier 3 -- Cody Bellinger, Vinnie Pasquantino, Spencer Steer, Jake Burger & Triston Casas
48:23 ADP Tier 4 -- Paul Goldschmidt, Luis Arraez, Michael Toglia & Yandy Díaz
1:01:07 ADP Tier 5 -- Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Ryan Mountcastle, Michael Busch, Nathaniel Lowe, Andrew Vaughn, Rhys Hoskins
1:21:16 -- The Late, Late First Basemen of Interest (Beyond Pick 300)
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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... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:49.5 | Eno Seris here with you. Continuing the first base position preview, but the start of today's episode is on hold as we learned of the passing of Bob Yucer at the age of 90 years old, a legend in baseball and just in the entertainment world overall. The voice of the brewers, no longer with us. And, you know, I think of all the |
| 1:14.5 | baseball memories I have that I wasn't watching on TV, but I was listening, either just |
| 1:20.3 | playing with my dog outside, going for a walk, driving in the car, going all the places |
| 1:25.6 | where you can't quite take the screen with you. |
| 1:28.6 | Bob's voice was there the entire time. |
| 1:31.0 | He was the guy painting the picture, telling great stories, and basically just being a through line to so many parts of our lives. |
| 1:42.0 | If you grew up a Brewers fan or even if you just grew up a baseball fan in more recent times |
| 1:46.8 | could just jump in on the broadcast, just a joy to listen to each and every day. |
| 1:52.6 | And it's surreal to think that he's gone. |
| 1:55.5 | It's a day that you knew as a fan could always come, but you wished it would never happen. |
| 2:01.7 | Yeah, it's a sad day. |
| 2:02.8 | I was just listening to him call a game in Pittsburgh where the furries were in town. |
| 2:08.1 | There's a furry convention in town. |
| 2:10.0 | And, you know, it's just an inning of work, but it was, it's really good if you can find it. |
| 2:15.7 | Because one of the things I think it kind of shows about Bob is that |
| 2:20.9 | he would be so funny and he'd be he'd be making fun of people or making fun of a situation or |
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