Baseball's best rivalry, building a winner in Colorado, dealing with early injuries, and making sense of slow starts
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the second round of Padres-Dodgers, Fernando Tatis Jr.'s huge weekend, Ryan Weathers' bid to keep a spot in the San Diego rotation, changes in the Rockies' front office, pitchers with good stuff and command, but without a rotation spot, and several players of interest through the first month of the season.
Rundown
1:35 Padres-Dodgers Continues to Deliver
5:59 The Braves' Offense Woes Continue
11:00 Ryan Weathers' Bid to Stick in the San Diego Rotation
17:43 Building a Winner in Colorado
28:47 Good Stuff and Command, Need Starting Role
33:32 How to React to a Roster Plagued by Early Injuries
45:19 Another Royal Records a Save
48:50 Sixto Sánchez's Long-Term Ceiling
55:07 Concerned About Kyle Tucker's Slow Start?
59:11 Still Believing in Austin Riley?
64:12 Alec Bohm vs. C.J. Cron vs. Joey Votto
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, April 26th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:21.9 | If you're watching us on YouTube, hopefully you're enjoying the new look of today's show. |
| 0:27.3 | Looking to do a little more on screen to keep everybody entertained over the course of our shows going forward. |
| 0:32.9 | Yeah, I get a closer shot of Eno, too. |
| 0:35.8 | So a more in-frame Eno. |
| 0:38.0 | My head looks gigantic. |
| 0:40.1 | Things are coming together really nicely here on the YouTube side. |
| 0:43.6 | So if you haven't subscribed to the YouTube channel, this is a good time to get in on the fun there. |
| 0:47.8 | And of course, welcome to all of our listeners on the podcast platform where this show originated. |
| 0:52.5 | So a lot to get to you on this show. |
| 0:54.6 | You know, Padres Dodgers really looking like the best rivalry in baseball right now. |
| 0:58.8 | That was another great series over the weekend. |
| 1:01.5 | The Rockies and Jeff Bridgett have parted ways. |
| 1:04.4 | So we will discuss how difficult it will be to build a contender. |
| 1:11.8 | We'll discuss how difficult it will be to build a contender. We'll discuss how difficult it will be to build a contender in Colorado. |
| 1:16.4 | And we had some great questions come in, including one about pitchers with good stuff in command, |
| 1:20.7 | who don't currently have a rotation spot, which could be a really helpful source of finding some potential sleepers, |
| 1:26.9 | in-season sleepers, guys that you could pick up in deeper leagues who might end up having a more prominent role later. |
| 1:32.6 | Lots of player questions sprinkled in throughout the show as well. |
| 1:36.2 | So we begin with the aforementioned Padres and Dodgers rivalry, which I think is the best in baseball right now. |
| 1:44.4 | And the weekend series had everything in it. |
| 1:48.4 | Tatis's shoulder, to me, is the main story here because any doubts we had after his |
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