Breakout Players & Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: AL East & NL East

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Eno, Britt and DVR look for breakouts and sleepers from each team in the AL & NL East, before discussing several tweaks that MLB is experimenting with at various minor-league levels in 2021. Rundown 6:10 Still Buying Austin Riley? 11:12 Excited About Trevor Rogers & Edward Cabrera 15:12 Is there a Great Marlins’ Hitter On the Way? 19:48 Do the Mets Have Any Undervalued Players? 25:22 Can the Phillies Get it Right with Spencer Howard? 30:16 A Pod Divided: Victor Robles 36:48 An Opportunity for Yusniel Diaz in Baltimore? 44:58 When Will Jarren Duran Arrive? Buying Dalbec? 50:33 Banking on a Deivi García Breakout? 53:37 Can the Rays Fix Francisco Mejía? 59:51 Get Rowdy 63:12 Minor League Rules Experiments Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Sign Up for the The Athletic Best Ball Cutline Championship Here: https://nfc.shgn.com/signup/baseball/AthleticBBCC Please fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/athleticaudiosurvey Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.4	I'm going to do. Welcome to Rates and barrels, it is Friday, March 12th, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, Bridgeroli, here with you.
1:27.6	It is part three of our three-part series looking for breakouts around the league.
1:30.0	Today is the AL East and the NL East.
1:35.0	Got a few other things we're going to talk about in this episode, including some experiments that are going to take place in the minor leagues.
1:39.1	Jason Stark had a piece outlining some of the details, and it's wild.
1:44.4	Different stuff at different levels, but good to sort of do these things in isolation, I guess, and figure out what works and how it impacts the game and maybe other things that happen as a result of making
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