Baseball in America in 2020
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
4:18 The Marlins’ COVID-19 Outbreak
10:57 A Need To Fix Old Habits
21:52 Ohtani’s 2020 Pitching Debut
26:36 Tommy Pham & The Padres Are Running!
31:12 A Closer Look at Houston’s Pitching
40:09 Mike Foltynewicz Gets DFA’d
45:29 Nate Pearson Coming Up Wednesday; Stephenson Arrives in Cincy
55:23 Statcast Is Working!
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| 1:11.3 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 117. It is Tuesday, July 28th. Derek Van Riper here at Enoseres. We have a ton of topics to get to. We have an unfortunate outbreak with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting the Miami Marlins. We've had cancellations. |
| 1:14.2 | We have other COVID-19 matters to get to. |
| 1:19.5 | We have actual baseball to talk about, which is cool and only adds to the cognitive dissonance that I think many of us are experiencing right now. |
| 1:22.8 | So we will get to a lot of baseball topics, of course, on this show as well. |
| 1:27.3 | We got a prospect debut that we're all looking forward to coming up on Wednesday |
| 1:31.6 | and some surprising transactions to get to throughout this episode as well. |
| 1:37.5 | Eno, how is it going for you on this Tuesday? |
| 1:40.8 | It is super, super weird. |
| 1:43.3 | Today is the first day that I will go to a ballpark since February. |
| 1:51.0 | How do you feel about that? |
| 1:53.3 | I am scared a little bit. |
| 1:59.1 | I mean, I know that it's not likely to have bad symptoms, even if I get it, |
| 2:08.4 | and that I'm not likely to get it because the way that they, the way that they do things is, |
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