An Early Free Agent Frenzy: Scherzer, Semien, Marte, Gausman & Extensions!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Eno & DVR return from a two-week break to a massive haul of free-agent signings and extensions including Max Scherzer and Starling Marte to the Mets, Marcus Semien to the Rangers, Kevin Gausman to the Blue Jays, an 11-year extension for Wander Franco, and a seven-year deal for Byron Buxton to remain in Minnesota.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome forates and barrels. We are back. |
| 0:17.9 | It is Monday, November 29th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosiris. |
| 0:23.4 | And I thought when we were making the schedule for the offseason, I thought that the two weeks at the end of November was pretty much the safest possible time with a lockout looming to take a couple of weeks off from shows. |
| 0:36.0 | I was wrong. Actually, we've got like a month's worth of news in the last week or so. We've got mega extensions for players. We've got even a trade to get to. We've got a bunch of free agent signings. The Mets have done more smart things than stupid things during this span. I mean, this is unprecedented times. Before we |
| 0:55.8 | started recording, I told Eno, I feel bad that Brits not here for transactional news that we |
| 1:02.5 | like for the Mets, because it seems like that would be a very rare occurrence, Brit on vacation. |
| 1:08.1 | She'll be back soon. But Eno, how'd everything go for you while we were gone? I mean, happy Thanksgiving. And thank you again for hosting. It was awesome. How did everything else go throughout your time off? I gave up the keg. Oh, the keg is gone. I gave up on the keg. But I will say, I thought that near the the end I had about 30% left in the keg. However, |
| 1:29.9 | when after the basting and then when I decided that I was just going to empty it, I only emptied it |
| 1:37.6 | for a minute and 45 seconds before it was totally empty. So I don't really know my fluid dynamics |
| 1:43.9 | that well to tell you exactly how many beers |
| 1:46.6 | that was. |
| 1:47.2 | But I would say that it could have been less than 10. |
| 1:50.7 | I would assume because if you had to empty an entire keg, I would assume 10 minutes would |
| 1:55.9 | be at least, at least 10 minutes. |
| 1:58.3 | I mean, that's with like a lot a lot of pressure and everything, too. |
| 2:01.0 | So, yeah, I would say you did more damage on that keg. |
| 2:05.4 | Oh, and also, an empty keg is heavier. |
| 2:09.7 | It's been a while since I've interacted with keg. |
| 2:12.0 | So an empty keg is a little bit heavier than I expected, you know? |
| 2:15.5 | So, like, some of my, oh, my God, I'll never finish this was actually just, |
| 2:20.3 | it was just feeling the metal of the keg, you know? |
| 2:23.4 | They are surprisingly heavy from, I don't know, 20 years ago or whatever the last time was |
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