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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2025 NL West Team Previews

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR begin their 2025 Team Preview series in the National League West! How much have the Dodgers improved following their World Series title in 2024? Do the Padres need another late winter trade to keep pace with the other NL playoff teams? Will the D-backs find their way back to October after a busy offseason? Can the Giants exceed expectations in Year 1 of the Buster Posey Era? And, are the Rockies better than some of the projections suggest?


Rundown

1:55 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers Preview

17:15 2025 San Diego Padres Preview

29:54 2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Preview

43:31 2025 San Francisco Giants Preview

56:51 2025 Colorado Rockies Preview

1:07:08 A Selection of Sleepers From the NL West


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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


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Transcript

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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.

0:14.0

With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on.

0:18.0

Playing a different league with BetFair.

0:24.6

Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boosts,

0:27.6

season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to rates and Beryl. It's Tuesday, February 11th.

0:47.5

Derek Ben Reiper, Enoceris, here with you on this episode.

0:51.8

We kick off our team preview series.

0:55.2

Today, we begin with the five teams in the NL West.

0:59.3

We're going to try to keep these to about 12 minutes on average per team.

1:03.0

That will be a challenge for both of us.

1:05.1

We did three team previews in each episode last year.

1:08.2

Now we're doing five.

1:09.0

So we will be entertaining and maybe concise,

1:15.3

hopefully entertaining above all else, though. That is not usually concise here. Rarely concise on

1:21.0

this pod. Before we get started, be sure to check out Connections Sports Edition. It's a new game for sports

1:26.4

fans from the Athletic. It's basically a daily dose of trivia. Very fun to solve that every day. I've done the puzzle since it was in beta. It is awesome. You can check it out atheeditic.com slash connections. Make that part of your day. It's nice to have routines, right? Nice to have puzzles in your life. Regular connections is fun too if you're looking for a challenge outside of sports,

1:44.8

but sports connections gets two thumbs up on this show. My older son and I have been doing sports

1:49.6

connections, which mostly just me doing it and him watching. Not racing yet? The baseball ones he can

1:55.7

get. You can race eventually. I think that's going to be the future. Speed racing puzzles side by side. One of the

2:02.0

thing you can do, you can join our Discord inside the Discord. You can find links to team channels,

2:07.8

strategy talk, rankings, all sorts of good stuff. We do have Eno's pitching rankings going live

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