Breakout Players & Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: AL Central & NL Central
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a round of intriguing spring news items before looking for breakouts and sleepers from each team in the AL & NL Central.
Rundown
3:59 Carlos Carrasco Injury
6:24 Frankie Montas Progressing Well
13:20 Kirby Yates Nearing Spring Debut
15:39 100-Inning Relievers, Starters Later?
25:47 Taking One More Chance on Nick Pivetta?
25:09 Xander Bogaerts "Pretty Close" to 100 Percent
32:00 Faith in Andrew Vaughn
39:39 Cheap Speed in Cleveland's Outfield?
45:19 Plenty of Fun, Late Options in Detroit
51:53 A Benintendi Bounce Back?
54:58 DVR's Case For Luis Arraez
60:04 Digging Deep on the Cincinnati Depth Chart
63:35 Finding Fantasy Gold in Pittsburgh
67:07 Obligatory Freddy Peralta Talk
70:56 Why Not Now for Tyler O'Neill?
74:42 Closing It Out with the Cubs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, March 10th, Derek Van Riper, here with |
| 0:19.7 | Enoseres. |
| 0:23.1 | Great stuff to talk about in this episode. |
| 0:24.6 | The breakout series continues. |
| 0:28.2 | We go to the central divisions in the AL and the NL. |
| 0:31.1 | And we've got some spring news because things are happening. |
| 0:32.2 | Players are breaking. |
| 0:35.6 | Roles are being described by teams. |
| 0:36.6 | Everything's happening. |
| 0:39.8 | And, of course, we're here with you on YouTube again today. |
| 0:43.8 | So if you're watching us on YouTube, hit that like button, hit the subscribe button. |
| 0:48.2 | At some point, in the distant future, maybe it's the not so distant future. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm going to say distant future, not to overpromise. |
| 0:53.6 | There might be some random fun things on the YouTube channel. |
| 1:11.1 | You know, you could see Eno making a sandwich, for example. That's great content. We couldn't do that when the show was only a podcast, but we could do something like that now that we have YouTube. So, you know, check us out there if you're one of the OGs. How would I do that during the middle of a podcast a podcast well we're going to do that separately that's uh yeah we're not doing that show yeah that's |
| 1:18.2 | what I'm saying it's a little it's a little ways off but you know we're looking for things like |
| 1:22.3 | that or you know takes his dogs for a walk I think people are really interested in what's |
| 1:26.3 | happening during your dog walks so I do have another dog walk thought. So today it was raining and one of the dogs went out |
| 1:36.9 | into like the mud to poop. And so I had to, I'm traipsing out and I'm getting, I have like these, |
| 1:42.5 | this just caked on mud all over my feet. And then he doesn't finish the job. And he's running around with like a little bit of poo hanging out the back of his butt. And so I'm trying to get the poo. He dropped. And I'm trying to get the kids away from this like flying poop that's coming out of the back of it. And I'm trying to get him not to eat his own because he keeps like trying to get back there and get at it and I'm just like that's all happening the rain starts coming heavier during this process and so I'm telling the kids to put their their hoods on and like all the stuff is happening and one of the kids has has something that has a zipper on it and he starts swinging it around and he clocks me in the |
| 2:19.3 | hand in the middle of all this and i don't normally cuss that much in front of them but recently |
| 2:25.4 | it's been getting worse and i let out the largest f bomb just so loud and i realized that normally |
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