Can Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Find a $500 Million Payday?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Jacob deGrom's bid to work with slightly less velocity in an effort to stay healthy in 2025, two pitching injuries that popped up in Rangers camp, Brandon Woodruff's steps toward a return to the Brewers' rotation, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s pursuit of a $500 million payday. Plus, Eno checks in from Mariners camp in Peoria before John Fogerty crashes our party over the PA system.
Rundown
2:08 Jacob deGrom: Attempting to Dial Back Velocity to Preserve Health?
(Jeff Passan's story at ESPN: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44195572/)
11:23 Brandon Woodruff Progressing in Rehab; Spring Debut Sunday
15:08 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.: Seeking $500M Deal
27:29 Rob Manfred & Several Owners Pressuring Stu Sternberg to Sell the Rays
31:34 Eno in Peoria at Mariners Camp
43:15 Mailbag Q: Unique League Formats
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Put me in, Coach. |
| 0:12.3 | Walk to Rates and barrels, it's Wednesday, March 12th. |
| 0:15.1 | Derek Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:18.8 | We dig into some news and notes, including a story about Jacob de Grom taking a little |
| 0:23.4 | velo off this year, or at least trying to, in a bid to stay healthy. |
| 0:28.1 | We've got the stories circulating right now about Vladimir Guerrero Jr. seeking a $500 million |
| 0:33.4 | payday. |
| 0:34.3 | We'll discuss how realistic that might be as he is approaching his walk year here in |
| 0:39.3 | 2025. Eno is on the scene in Peoria today, so we'll catch up with Eno about what's happening |
| 0:46.1 | in Mariners Camp, and we've got another great round of mailbag questions that we're going to get |
| 0:50.6 | to a little bit later on in the show as well. |
| 0:54.6 | Some housekeeping as we get started. |
| 0:56.5 | That's the case every time we get together this time of year. |
| 0:59.5 | Our live show is coming up at Bear Bottle Brewing Company in San Francisco on March 27th and March 28th, Thursday and Friday of Opening Day weekend. |
| 1:08.4 | We're excited about that. |
| 1:09.5 | 430 Pacific start times, both days, free admission, |
| 1:13.4 | no tickets required, and guess what? We have can art for kayakers cove. This looks great, Eno. |
| 1:20.5 | Oh, I thought you were going to show them the other version with the recipe on it. If you want to see |
| 1:25.3 | the recipe, it is on the Discord right now. This is, |
| 1:30.1 | you can see right now a little bit of the Rates and Barrels logo on there, Derek and my name on |
| 1:35.7 | there. It's pretty exciting. I think it looks really nice. And apparently, producer Brian says |
| 1:41.3 | it tastes really nice. He's already had a taste of it. That's incredible. |
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