Blake Snell, Yu Darvish & Ha-seong Kim to the Padres, buying low on new Rays, and the Cubs at the crossroads
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Padres' two blockbuster trades, whether the Rays will spend any money at all this winter, the Cubs' first step toward a potential teardown, Ha-seong Kim's decisions to sign in San Diego, and Josh Bell's move to the Nationals.
Rundown
3:58 Adjusting Blake Snell's Projection in San Diego?
11:52 Luis Patiño’s Clear Path to the Rotation in Tampa Bay
20:32 Francisco Mejia’s Restart
26:22 Will the Rays Spend On Any Free Agents?
32:32 Is Yu Darvish Being Over-drafted?
42:30 More Moves to Come From the Cubs?
48:34 Josh Bell to the Nationals
54:32 Ha-seong Kim Chooses San Diego
64:11 Other Somewhat Interesting Late December Moves
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, January 4, 2021. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris, trying to remember how to podcast. It's and barrels. It is Monday, January 4, 2021. Derek Van Weiper here with Enoseres trying to remember how to podcast. It's been a little while. You know, I feel like we're kind of re-learning how to ride a bike, so to speak. |
| 0:31.0 | We are back. We are back. It's a new year. I'm going to try and run 750 miles this year. |
| 0:37.5 | 750? Yeah, that's my new resolution, I guess. I don't like, I don't, it's goals. I want goals. |
| 0:45.5 | I want, I want goals with numbers attached so I can actually track my progress. I've done too many |
| 0:50.2 | resolutions like, be a better father. Well, what are the metrics, man well what are the metrics man what are the metrics |
| 0:55.5 | you've got to have our analytics team put that on your dashboard and you sign into |
| 1:02.2 | WordPress like dad metrics time spent with kids parks visited that's had you know all those |
| 1:09.8 | things that's right. |
| 1:11.9 | But it was an amazing break. |
| 1:14.5 | We were all about the culinary masterpieces. |
| 1:18.1 | So I made ox tail. |
| 1:21.3 | We also a pretty multicultural background for our family gathering. |
| 1:25.3 | We all brought our different, you know, best recipes to the table. |
| 1:31.2 | So I did my lamb chops from my family. |
| 1:36.3 | I did some ox tail with some coaching from my Jamaican side. |
| 1:40.9 | I did. |
| 1:41.6 | Then we also had enchiladas are from my my wife's Mexican side. That's a big Christmas meal. |
| 1:50.9 | And then we also had, we call them floutas, but they might be chimichangas. I don't know what they are. |
| 1:55.7 | They're basically like not full burrito size but also not taco size |
| 2:01.3 | soft flour tortillas that you put |
| 2:05.8 | basically like fajita stuffing inside and then fry it |
| 2:08.7 | so it's bigger than a tequito it's not a tequito |
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