AL Wild Card Matchup Breakdown
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the two AL Wild Card matchups with the Tigers' second-half surge bringing them to Houston, with an opportunity to end the Astros' string of seven consecutive ALCS appearances. Plus, they examine the Royals-Orioles matchup, and wonder if the Kansas City bats behind Bobby Witt Jr. and Salvador Perez can bring enough to the table against playoff pitching, and if the O's second-half performance (40-41) will carry over into October.
Rundown
3:14 Can The Tigers Carry Their Excellent Second Half Into October?
10:34 Buying Elite Quality of Contact Suppression?
17:31 The Difficulty of Picking Against the Astros
25:52 How Do the Royals and Orioles Match Up?
34:37 What's Behind the September Struggles of the Baltimore Bullpen?
38:57 Who Advances to Face the Yankees in the ALDS?
47:37 The Lingering Questions About Supporting Bats Behind Judge and Soto
50:31 Cleveland's Shift Toward More Power in 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Daryls. It's Monday, September 30th. |
| 0:19.5 | Welcome to the postseason. |
| 0:20.8 | We're there, at least for one of the two leagues. |
| 0:25.2 | Edoceros, Derek and Riper here with you. |
| 0:26.9 | It is a great day here as we close out September. |
| 0:29.9 | A great day for baseball. |
| 0:31.1 | A lot happening, though, because we have a double header of consequence. |
| 0:36.3 | So, a couple things. |
| 0:37.4 | First off, if you've already won your fantasy baseball league championship, congratulations. have a double header of consequence. So a couple things. |
| 0:41.8 | First off, if you've already won your fantasy baseball league championship, congratulations. |
| 0:49.6 | If you have not, because the double header happening between the Braves and the Mets on Monday will determine that outcome. |
| 0:54.1 | Best of luck to you, even though you might hear this after the doubleheader takes place. |
| 0:59.6 | I actually have a sliver of hope. We're now in fourths in the main event. I can't win it, |
| 1:06.6 | but I can get onto the podium with one thing. Do you know what it is? A Spencer Schwellenbach win. |
| 1:11.7 | Jose Iglesias has to score two runs. |
| 1:13.9 | That's it? |
| 1:15.4 | That's all you need? |
| 1:16.7 | I think so. |
| 1:18.1 | I've looked at the standings. |
| 1:19.5 | If he scores two runs, |
| 1:21.2 | which seems like it's possible, |
| 1:22.1 | it's two games. |
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