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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

A Marte-Luzardo deal, the Mariners are 'doing stuff', and finding fits for Max Scherzer

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the first wave of Trade Deadline moves with just two days left for teams to wheel and deal. Starling Marte to the A’s, Jesus Luzardo to the Marlins, Adam Frazier to the Padres, potential landing spots for Max Scherzer in the NL West, and growing concerns about the start of Jarred Kelenic’s MLB career. 


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years. Tops baseball cards.

0:22.0

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. It is Wednesday, July 28th. I barely know what day it is.

0:28.3

That's been the case for about a month straight now, Eno. I am at my in-laws house. The lighting in here is very different.

0:35.3

So if you want to make jokes about my shiny forehead in the YouTube comments, please be kind, but go ahead and make those jokes. I was just saying you look like you were in a closet. Yeah, yeah. Make jokes about the setup. I think I'm sitting closer for the camera to block all the piles of stuff behind me. There's definitely Tupperware, you can see. Tupperware. Yeah, I've got to get this shoulder up there.

0:56.9

We're going to go easy on you. Moving. I've read once that moving and getting married

1:04.2

and having children are the most stressful things that can happen to a person. And in my life, I've almost always

1:14.4

combined two of the three. So be happy, I guess I'm saying, be happy that you're not also having

1:22.7

a baby. Although I think changing jobs is probably on that list and you are moving and your wife is

1:29.3

changing jobs.

1:30.1

So that's going to be a nice and nice one for her.

1:33.3

Because, you know, what's going to happen is the other part of moving is you arrive and all

1:38.0

your crap is in boxes and maybe on day two or three, you're expected to work again.

1:45.6

And you're like, honey, where's my arm for my mic?

1:51.3

Yeah. It's just like, sorry, got to go.

1:54.2

Yeah, that's pretty much how it works. And we're living out of the boxes right now,

1:58.8

which will have to be like sealed back up and then thrown into the car or into the U-box.

2:03.3

It's a whole ordeal.

2:04.7

I would happily pay some money to not go back to my old apartment in Madison ever again, but I can't.

2:11.0

There's still some stuff that has to be taken care of there.

2:13.3

So a couple more days of maintenance there.

2:15.6

And then the long drive.

2:16.4

Disgusting last cleanup session where you're just tired.

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