An exciting Opening Weekend featuring Shohei Ohtani and Yermín Mercedes!?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Britt & DVR discuss an exciting Opening Weekend of baseball including the theatrics of Shohei Ohtani in his 2021 season debut, the emergence of Yermín Mercedes, flaring tempers between the Cardinals and Reds, and more. Rundown 1:07 Shohei Ohtani is Amazing 5:17 Yermín Mercedes Goes 8-for-8 to Open 2021 10:07 Benches Clear in Cincinnati; Is It a Brawl Without Punches? 18:26 An Update on the Nats' COVID Outbreak 23:27 César Valdez's Approach is Highly Unusual 29:46 Making Sense of the Jays' Bullpen Roles 37:36 Berrios vs. Burnes 43:59 MLB Moves the 2021 All-Star Game Out of Atlanta Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to The Athletic for just $1/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.5	I'm going to do. Welcome to Rates in Beryl. It is Monday, April 5th. Derek Van Riper here with Britt Jiroli. A lot of fun stuff to talk about.
1:31.0	Opening weekend now in the books. We're going to talk about the feats of Shohei Otani, who had one of the most eventful games I think I've ever seen a player have, especially in early April on Sunday night
1:35.8	baseball, no less.
1:37.6	We had our first benches clearing situation.
1:39.9	I don't even want to call it a brawl, but benches did clear this weekend between the
1:43.7	Cardinals and Reds. And we had some really big surprises, both in terms of individual player performances,
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