Ben Clemens of FanGraphs Joins us Live from Barebottle Brewing

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Eno, Trevor, and DVR are live for Day 2 from Barebottle Brewing in San Francisco. Ben Clemens of FanGraphs joins them for this show. They break down some of the box score fun things they saw from Opening Day, standout pitching performances from the opener, what they are looking forward to this season, and awards predictions for the upcoming season. Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social Follow Trevor on Bluesky: @iamtrevormay.bsky.social E-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris With: Trevor May Producer: Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.6	Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Friday, March 28th, our second live show here at Bear Bottle Brewing Company. Thanks to all of you for joining us live.
1:21.6	Yeah, thanks for coming. Thank you to Lester Coga and the great team here at Bearbottle, taking great care of us this week.
1:29.3	Be sure to try some kayakers' cove if you haven't done so already.
1:32.3	It is delicious.
1:33.3	Smells really good.
1:35.3	It smells amazing.
1:36.3	It just trying to sniff every glass that comes out.
1:39.3	I want to put my face in it.
1:41.3	A lot of ground to cover today, though, fun first day of the state side version of the Major League opening day, the real opening day, as we like to call it here.
1:50.1	And it's just great to have box scores.
1:52.2	Lots of box scores to peel through, right?
1:54.0	There's something very relaxing about digging through that.
1:56.8	And we're going to talk about some pitches we noticed, all sorts of good stuff here.
2:00.6	We've got a guest, Ben Clemens of Fangraphs is here today, so we're going to talk about some pitches we noticed, all sorts of good stuff here. We've got a guest, Ben Clemens of Fangraphs is here today.
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