Are the Diamondbacks Serious About Alex Bregman?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the possible fit of Alex Bregman with the D-backs as the Ketel Marte trade rumors continue to swirl. Plus, Ha-seong Kim takes a one-year deal to return to Atlanta, Luke Weaver is likely headed to the Mets, Maikel Garcia gets an extension with the Royals, and school is back in session for draft season December draft-and-hold
Rundown
1:01 Buying the D-backs' Interest in Alex Bregman Amidst Ketel Marte Trade Rumors
11:04 Luke Weaver Nearing Two-Year Deal w/Mets
13:19 Ha-Seong Kim: Reunites with Braves on One-Year Deal
26:05 Adrian Houser to the Giants
31:50 Maikel Garcia's Five-Year Extension with the Royals
38:45 Foster Griffin to the Nats; Interesting Swap w/Red Sox
46:15 First 2026 Draft & Hold League Takeaways
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Great St Berl's. It is Wednesday, December 17th. Derek and Ryper, Yenosares, here with you. |
| 0:17.2 | Trevor May a little under the weather. Hopefully Trevor gets well soon. We have a news heavy show again today. |
| 0:23.9 | And maybe a little bit of a, how did your draft go talk later on with Eno? |
| 0:28.3 | He completed his first paid draft in hold of the season already. |
| 0:33.1 | How did you do it? |
| 0:33.7 | How did you get it done so fast? |
| 0:34.9 | We'll dig into that in just a little while. |
| 0:37.1 | Degeneration. |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah. Peak. Peak degeneracy, I think, is what was happening here. I was just looking at the pick |
| 0:44.7 | timer in mine. There are several people in my league that are spending less than one minute on |
| 0:49.1 | the clock with a two-hour pick clocks. They're prepared and they're ready and is December. |
| 0:54.1 | Never stops. It never |
| 0:55.6 | ever stops. But we begin today with some news and some rumors. Alex Bregman getting interest from |
| 1:02.3 | the Diamondbacks. I wanted you to just kind of help me break this down. How real do you think this is? |
| 1:07.9 | Because I think the implications would be interesting in the sense that |
| 1:11.4 | the debacks looked like a team that wasn't going to spend more money this offseason. If this |
| 1:15.9 | is happening, it's a Ken Kendrick thing. It's coming from the top. And if it's happening, |
| 1:21.1 | it might also be in part because they don't fully believe in Jordan Lawler, right? There might be |
| 1:27.0 | some concerns about Lawler and the limited samples he's had in the big leagues. |
| 1:31.4 | But this seems weird to me because of the super rumor that's been floating for a long time |
| 1:36.7 | that Catel Marte is on the block with that very team-friendly contract that has a bunch of deferred money in it. |
| 1:43.2 | It just seems very odd to me that |
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