Ben Clemens of FanGraphs Joins us Live from Barebottle Brewing
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It is Friday, March 28th, our second live show here at Bear Bottle Brewing Company. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks to all of you for joining us live. |
| 0:21.7 | Yeah, thanks for coming. |
| 0:25.1 | Thank you to Lester Coga and the great team here |
| 0:27.2 | at Bear Bottle, taking great care of us this week. |
| 0:29.4 | Be sure to try some kayakers Cove if you haven't done so already. |
| 0:32.7 | It is delicious. |
| 0:34.2 | Smells really good. |
| 0:35.5 | Smells amazing. |
| 0:36.5 | It smells amazing. |
| 0:36.5 | Eno is just trying to sniff every glass that comes out. |
| 0:39.3 | I want to put my face in it. |
| 0:41.3 | 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. |
| 0:49.3 | And it's just great to have box scores. Lots of box scores to peel through, right? |
| 0:53.3 | There's something very relaxing about digging through that, and 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. So we're going to pick Ben's brain a little bit, talk about some things that he's thinking about for the upcoming season. And we're going to start today with some trivia. |
| 1:14.3 | Tyler O'Neill homered again on opening day for a Rates and Barrel's hat. |
| 1:18.8 | How many opening days in a row has Tyler O'Neill Homer done? |
| 1:22.4 | That's six. |
| 1:23.3 | There you go. |
| 1:24.6 | That's ridiculous. |
| 1:25.7 | Six in a row. |
| 1:26.6 | That's ridiculous. |
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