Cody Bellinger is a Yankee, Nolan Arenado Blocks a Trade & Christian Walker Blasts Off to Houston
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Cody Bellinger's fit with the Yankees after the Cubs moved him in a trade earlier this week, and Matt Shaw's opportunity to take over the hot corner in Chicago. Plus, Christian Walker's move to the Astros on a three-year deal, Nolan Arenado's decision to block a trade to Houston, and a barrage of one-year deal including Max Kepler (Phillies), Griffin Canning (Mets), Michael Soroka (Nationals) and Tomoyuki Sugano (Orioles).
Rundown
1:58 Cody Bellinger to the Yankees
10:35 Matt Shaw's Opportunity in Chicago
14:59 Christian Walker's Move to Houston
20:10 Nolan Arenado Nixes a Trade to the Astros
29:30 Max Kepler to the Phillies
33:52 One-Year Deals for Griffin Canning, Michael Soroka & Tomoyuki Sugano
48:40 Eno's Final Hall of Fame Ballot Choices
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.3 | It's Friday, December 20th. |
| 0:18.7 | Derek, Van Riper, Enoceris here with you on this episode. We get you caught up on a lot of news from around the league. We've got a few trades and signings, mostly signings to talk about because free agencies rolling along. I'm still grateful that Juan Soto signed during the winter meetings because had that not gone down when it did, I think we could be in one of those |
| 0:37.9 | brutal December lulls. That is not the case whatsoever. Cody Bellinger has a new home. We'll |
| 0:43.1 | talk about that. Christian Walker is on the move. Got a few pitchers landing in interesting places. |
| 0:48.4 | We got no trade clauses being utilized, all sorts of good stuff. Eno's got to send in his |
| 0:53.7 | Hall of Fame ballot soon. |
| 0:55.0 | You still got what, eight days, 10 days to think about it? |
| 0:58.8 | I already got a gentle reminder from the Hall of Fame that it's due. |
| 1:06.4 | I've got 11 days to send it, but I guess they want it. |
| 1:09.9 | And I have nine of my possible 10 votes |
| 1:13.2 | clicked, and we'll talk about why the 10th is just so hard for me right now. So it's paper |
| 1:19.7 | and used ink. So those nine really are locked in, right? You're not going to do a white out on a |
| 1:24.0 | vote, are you? Yeah, I had the thought like, oh, no, no, I'm not, |
| 1:29.6 | I'm not crossing something out on there. I wonder if not Mr. Tibbs has ever spotted |
| 1:34.6 | whiteout on a Hall of Fame ballot. I've never noticed it. You would considering the dot 1980s |
| 1:42.1 | dot matrix printer ass ballot we've got here. |
| 1:46.1 | Hey, some things are so good, you just got to let them be. |
| 1:49.6 | Don't change a classic. |
| 1:51.2 | If you want to join us in our Discord, we'll be hanging out there throughout the holidays, off and on, checking in. |
| 1:55.6 | A lot of good conversation happening there. |
| 1:57.1 | Link is in the show description. |
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