Another Dodgers Signing, Mookie's First-Round Status & Jarren Duran's Encore
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Hye-seong Kim's fit with the Dodgers after he signed a three-year deal with the club Friday, Mookie Betts' outlook as a first-rounder coming off of a relatively disappointing 2024 that included time on the IL with a wrist injury, Jarren Duran's surprisingly-low 2025 Steamer projection, and a few other mailbag questions including one about our previous wish for a 'player squishing machine'. #WeAreScience
Rundown
3:36 Hye-seong Kim Signs with Dodgers; The Depth Chart Gets More Crowded
11:21 Will Mookie Betts Return First-Round Value Again in 2025?
22:11 Charlie Morton Signs with Baltimore; Concerns About O's Rotation?
30:03 A New Study Looking at UCL Surgery Recoveries
36:27 Jarren Duran's 2025 Steamer Projection
46:53 Contrarian Targets & Holds
54:33 Playoff League Player Draft Approach
59:43 The Player Squishing Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. |
| 0:15.9 | It's Monday, January 6th, 2025. |
| 0:18.4 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceraris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:22.0 | The Dodgers have made yet another addition to their roster. |
| 0:25.7 | We'll introduce you to a new Dodger and try to make sense of what has become the most crowded depth chart, probably in the entire league right now. |
| 0:33.9 | Tons of great mailbag questions. |
| 0:35.7 | We had a Charlie Morton signing, not with one of the two teams we would have expected, so we'll analyze that. |
| 0:40.6 | He goes to Baltimore. |
| 0:42.0 | We've got a study on UCL recoveries that was recently published that we're going to talk a little bit about. |
| 0:47.7 | And then we've got a bunch of other topics we're going to hit over the course of this hour as well. |
| 0:53.3 | You know, how the weekend treats you? |
| 0:56.4 | I've just... |
| 0:57.7 | It's all right. |
| 1:01.2 | It's all right. |
| 1:01.9 | You know, when you see the end of a long break coming, |
| 1:04.5 | you're kind of... |
| 1:05.8 | You don't know what to do, you know? |
| 1:08.1 | Do we do another day in pajamas? |
| 1:10.0 | Or do we get out of the house because, you know, we're not going to be able to do stuff so i took the kids to see mufasa and uh and had some chipotle mufasa there's a prequel to the lion king there is a prequel to the lion king that is out yes every there are no. No, Hollywood really has mailed it in for a while now. It's disappointing. Well, if you're sad about that, there is a screens channel in our Discord. You can make recommendations for various things to see in a movie theater or to watch at home. We appreciate that. Of course, we can talk a lot of baseball in there. You can join with the link in the show description. And if you're watching us on YouTube, |
| 1:48.2 | smash the like button. Smash it. Yeah, please do. And please go on the on the screens thing and |
| 1:53.8 | tell me what to watch because it's been pretty bad. I do a lot of alone binge watching, |
| 2:00.7 | which is like this, they stick people in the middle of nowhere, and they have to, you know, find food and stuff. |
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