A Phillies-Tigers Deal, Questionable First-Rounders & Roster Construction Problems
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the still unsettled status of Carlos Correa and the Twins' move back into the fray, a trade between the Phillies and Tigers, Michael Conforto as a high-volume player in Year 1 with the Giants, current first-round picks that appear to be overdrafted, and a few roster construction concerns that have surfaced in the early portion of the 2023 draft season.
Rundown
4:29 Carlos Correa: Twins Back in the Mix?
8:41 Phillies-Tigers Trade: Closer Questions All Around
19:19 Making Sense of Matt Vierling & the Tigers' OF Playing Time Mix
24:59 Michael Conforto Officially a Giant
28:57 A.J. Pollock to Seattle
31:26 Eric Hosmer to Chicago
35:43 Dodgers DFA Bauer, MLB Reinstates John Coppolella
37:33 Best Wishes to Liam Hendriks
40:49 Current First-Rounders of Concern?
56:18 Roster Construction Questions
Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris
Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper
e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com
Subscribe to The Athletic at $2/month for the first year: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels
Promo Codes From Our Advertising Partners
Roman: Get 20% off your first Roman order at http://www.ro.co/athletic
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, January 9th. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:19.6 | Enos-Saris on this episode. A bunch of news and notes. |
| 0:22.6 | We'll have the latest on Carlos Correa. We've got a Philly's Tigers trade. We've got a player in San Francisco who passed a physical and had his contract formally announced, a bunch of other moves and happenings as well. |
| 0:34.3 | Plus, we're going to get into some early 2023 draft talk. We're going to talk |
| 0:38.9 | about some of the players up top that we have some concerns about and some of the questions that |
| 0:43.9 | people have right now about roster construction during the upcoming season, some observations |
| 0:48.0 | for those who've already done drafts up to this point. I think there's a lot that we can |
| 0:52.5 | possibly learn from and some things that'll |
| 0:55.0 | probably help us shape the position previews. How's it going for you on this Monday, you know? |
| 1:00.4 | It's going good. The 2023 in parenting is off to a great start. We misread the calendar. The |
| 1:08.1 | middle schools are off today here in Palo Alto and we thought it was elementary |
| 1:14.1 | schools. So our kids got to school an hour late today. It's a great start to the new year. |
| 1:20.2 | That's awesome. Here's the question. Do you think your children, you've smart kids, do you think |
| 1:26.0 | your kids knew that they had school today and they were just playing it super chill? Like, no, no, we don't have, |
| 1:30.7 | they weren't saying anything. They weren't correcting you. Like, they pulled, they pulled an office |
| 1:34.8 | grade prank on you. The one where Dwight thinks it's tomorrow's Saturday. And my oldest is a |
| 1:40.4 | rule follower. He was actually extremely upset. Oh, okay. That we had forgotten. I can relate. |
| 1:47.4 | Also, I think they felt a little bit of the rug pulling under them sort of... |
| 1:53.7 | What? We thought we had one more day. |
| 1:58.8 | Yeah. It was all magic this weekend in the household. |
| 2:06.1 | It's funny. |
| 2:06.9 | Magic is listed as a game for 13 plus, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.