Building Blocks & Backup Plans
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 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
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:46.7 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, here with you on a fantasy Friday. |
| 0:50.5 | A lot of fantasy talk on this episode. |
| 0:52.8 | We're going to take a look at some baseball news you |
| 0:54.9 | should know, including a seven-year extension for Lawrence Butler. We have some more spring |
| 0:59.5 | injury news to get to. We've got some really compelling mailbag questions that are kind of nice, |
| 1:05.2 | like bigger picture players you might want to target, things you might want to do strategically. |
| 1:09.5 | So we'll get to those a little bit later on in the show as well. |
| 1:13.4 | Some housekeeping as we get started. |
| 1:15.1 | Another reminder, we've got two live podcasts coming up later this month at Bear Bottle Brewing Company, March 27th and March 28th. |
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| 1:28.8 | are on Pacific time, especially being in San Francisco. Hope you can make it out for one or both |
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