Buy-High and Buy-Low Trade Candidates
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Michael Beller fills in for the vacationing DVR on this episode of Rates & Barrels. Beller and Eno dive into buy-high and buy-low trade candidates on this episode, but first they address walkouts across the league, as MLB players use their platforms to give voice to the call for racial justice.
Rundown
1:52 Eno and Beller on the Walkouts
9:26 Taijuan Walker Traded to the Blue Jays
12:15 The Effects of Cuts to Player Development Staffs
17:34 Buy-Low Candidates, Led by Mike Yastrzemski
20:23 Teoscar Hernandez and Cavan Biggio
24:20 Ian Happ and Kyle Lewis
28:51 Lance Lynn
33:50 Who NOT to Buy Low: Christian Yelich, Francisco Lindor or Nolan Arenado?
40:00 Javier Báez
41:51 Eugenio Suárez
43:39 Ketel Marte
44:22 José García
45:45 Gleyber Torres
48:48 Chris Paddack and Luis Castillo
52:22 Listener Questions: Sell Dylan Cease?
54:31 What's up with Zach Davies?
57:02 Trade Walker Buehler, Blake Snell, Kenta Maeda or Germán Márquez?
59:52 Beer of the Month
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Rates and barrels here on the Athletic. It is Thursday, August 27th. If you're thinking to yourself, that's a similar baritone to what I'm used to hearing, but not exactly the same. You're right. This is Michael Beller. I am sitting in for the vacationing Derek Van Riper DVR on a very well-deserved time off here this weekend. So happy to jump in |
| 0:40.7 | with guy you know and love on Rates and Burroughs, Eno, Saris. Eno, what's going on today? |
| 0:46.6 | Oh, man. I'm pretty tired to the bone. And, you know, it's funny. You know, I'm tired for a funny reason. I've got these two puppies and, you know, I'm tired for a funny reason i've got these two puppies |
| 0:57.9 | and they're just adorable but they're crapping all over the place and uh they wake up like today |
| 1:06.8 | was 545 they either wake up the middle of the night or they wake up early. And it's just like having babies again. |
| 1:13.9 | You know, I'm laughing a little bit, but I'm also, you know, I call my mom crying this last weekend just because with COVID out here in California, we can't do anything really indoors. |
| 1:31.4 | And with the fires, I haven't been able to go outside most this week um so i just feel really cooped up um and then on top of that uh there's sort of |
| 1:39.8 | this economic downturn and um and then these protests and um the violence and |
| 1:48.8 | like i don't want to like create a false equivalency um what i'm feeling is perhaps temporary |
| 1:58.8 | um and maybe not on the scale of um is perhaps temporary. |
| 2:06.0 | And maybe not on the scale of some of the injustice that people of color see in this country. |
| 2:09.9 | But the reason I bring it up in the same sentence is that |
| 2:14.4 | I think that we're all hurting. And I think that we all have some pain |
| 2:23.9 | right now. Um, and the reason why these things are linked is, um, there's, there should be empathy born of that connection. |
| 2:38.7 | The response I understand at least is there is no racism, this guy deserved it, blah, blah, blah. |
| 2:47.5 | This other kid with the AK- 47 was just doling out justice like |
| 2:53.1 | I don't understand that at all it it it seems inhuman to me and perhaps they are just |
| 3:01.0 | bots I mean there's more bots online than ever because it it just negates that human connection, which is like, |
| 3:11.5 | like you're hurting and I'm hurting. |
| 3:14.0 | And what can I do for you, brother? |
| 3:16.3 | What can I do for you, sister? |
| 3:17.9 | And how can we do something about this? |
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