Bad Days, Managing Lofty Expectations & Seattle's Surging Bats

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Eno, DVR, and Jed discuss a brutal day at the office for Ryan Pressly and Chase Meidroth, before looking at the Orioles' sluggish start to 2025 and the rash of injuries that have played a role along the way, as well as the organization's approach to pitching. Plus, they talk about the changes in Seattle where the Mariners have put together a top-five offense to begin the season, and wonder if new philosophies will make that improvement stick all year.

Rundown

1:24 Ryan Pressly's Historically Bad Day

13:18 Bouncing Back From a Blunder

19:29 It Actually Happens...A Lot

32:38 Making Sense of a 13-21 Start in Baltimore

40:14 What Would You Have Done Differently?

50:34 The Mariners Have Been a Top-Five Offense

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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

With: Jed Lowrie

Producer: Brian Smith

Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper

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1:45.7	episode. We discuss a few peculiar happenings from Tuesday night. There were two very bizarre things,
1:52.4	one kind of historically unusual, one kind of embarrassing, but also prompting a question,
1:58.6	like, how do you recover from this? A question that I think Jed can shed some specific light onto.
2:04.8	We're going to talk about the Orioles a bit because good teams can have bad starts too.
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