Change Atop the AL East, Past Calendar Year Standouts & Mailbag Monday
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the change atop the AL East with the Orioles taking first place away from the Rays over the course of a four-game series and a few movers on Eno's latest Starting Pitcher Rankings. Plus, they examine a few surprising pitchers from the past calendar year leaderboard, and answer several mailbag questions.
Rundown
4:44 O's Move to First Place in the AL East (& The Rays' Recent Slide)
13:21 What Did Baltimore See in Ryan O'Hearn?
18:48 Pitcher Improvement Amplified by Camden Yards Changes?
23:41 Surprises From the Past Calendar Year Leaderboard (SPs only)
32:33 An Inside Track to Extending Shohei Ohtani by Trading For Him Now?
39:06 Kutter Crawford's Emergence in the Red Sox's Rotation
45:57 Paul Skenes & Mound Placement
52:01 Is Alek Thomas Fixed?
56:55 Ongoing Concern About Emmanuel Clase; Is It Justified?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Monday, July 24th, Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:20.1 | I know Sarah's here with you on this Monday. |
| 0:23.4 | We're going to dig into a whole bunch of topics. |
| 0:25.5 | One of them's a bit 3-0-e in nature, big change atop the ALEs. |
| 0:29.8 | We'll talk about the Rays and the Orioles and some of the issues facing those teams as they look ahead to potential post-season runs, having a little fun with the past |
| 0:39.2 | calendar year leaderboard. I got a lot of mailbag questions to get to along the way as well. |
| 0:45.4 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:48.4 | It's good. It's good. We've had a good weekend this weekend. |
| 0:53.9 | Some birthday parties and uh yeah for the adults |
| 0:59.9 | even oh real nice yeah it's nice to go to an adult party that and that now we're doing |
| 1:06.4 | the thing that like uh sort of madman style the kids are just you know i i joke that that you know we had |
| 1:12.9 | this whole thing where we went to open plan in all our houses you know and a lot of it was like oh |
| 1:18.0 | i need to be able to watch the kids while i'm cooking dinner but also just to make the most out of |
| 1:22.5 | space we had so that you just open it all up you feel like oh it feels much grander when i |
| 1:27.3 | combine my kitchen |
| 1:28.0 | and my dining room right you know um and so i think we went through a lot of that but then it's also |
| 1:32.9 | nice to have like a door to shut and put the kids in a separate space and so they had uh my friends |
| 1:41.1 | have uh done a renovation where um their their garage is now like a unit and we just stuck |
| 1:49.3 | all the kids in the garage and close the door and we're like, thank you. The adults are going to |
| 1:55.2 | hang out in here now. You guys figure it out in there. Thunderdome. I wonder if we'll ever have a trend where we go back and we have all the property |
| 2:03.2 | brothers and on HGV and they're going back in. |
| 2:05.6 | Let's close this up and give you some more privacy in here. |
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