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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Lawrence Butler's seven-year extension with the A's, and a few potential comps for him as he approaches his peak. Plus, they share a few lessons learned from The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, where waiting too long to address the middle-infield spots may prove costly, and answer a few draft-related mailbag questions. Rundown 2:19 Lawrence Butler's Seven-Year Extension with the A's 11:42 Awaiting Details On Grayson Rodriguez's Triceps Soreness 14:45 Christian Walker Sent for MRI (Oblique) 21:35 Making Sense of Spring Velocity Drops & Cutting Through Noise 26:25 Lessons Learned From TGFBI 34:28 Becoming More Flexible Throughout a Draft 46:47 Who Will Be This Year's Jack Flaherty? 51:12 Strategy Beyond Pick 100 56:02 Drake Baldwin & Dynasty League Catcher Thoughts Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.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 Producer Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Talk to Rachel Varyl's Friday, March 7th.
0:44.3	Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, here with you on a fantasy Friday.
0:48.1	A lot of fantasy talk on this episode.
0:50.3	We're going to take a look at some baseball news you should know, including a seven-year extension for Lawrence Butler.
0:55.9	We have some more spring injury news to get to.
0:59.0	We've got some really compelling mailbag questions that are kind of nice, like bigger picture players you might want to target, things you might want to do strategically.
1:07.1	So we'll get to those a little bit later on in the show as well.
1:11.0	Some housekeeping as we get started.
1:12.7	Another reminder, we've got two live podcasts coming up later this month at Bear Bottle Brewing Company, March 27th and March 28th.
1:20.3	430 p.m. local time.
1:22.7	That's Pacific.
1:23.5	I think I said Eastern yesterday on YouTube.
1:25.9	We definitely are on Pacific time, especially being in San Francisco.
1:29.6	Hope you can make it out for one or both of those shows.
1:33.7	Really excited for that.
1:34.8	Just three weeks away.
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