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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Day 1 Draft Observations, the puzzling Chris Paddack, and has Statcast stolen the magic out of fantasy baseball?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the surprises from Day 1 of the MLB Draft, a few observations from the Futures Game, the puzzling case of Chris Paddack, and if Statcast has stolen some of the magic out of fantasy baseball. 


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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0:00.0

Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some

0:07.8

workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension,

0:12.8

we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given

0:17.4

£100 million back to our members instead.

0:23.0

Oh, you've broken the cat flap again.

0:25.9

People's pension. Now that's a pension with purpose.

0:29.7

Visit people'spension.com.uk forward slash pays you. You. Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. Derek Van

0:55.3

Riper here with Enosaris. It is Monday, July 12th, just a few hours before the home run

1:01.3

derby in Colorado. And we're going to talk about a few things that have gone down since the weekend

1:06.7

started. Day one of the draft is in the books. We'll talk about a few of the players that were

1:10.4

selected, a few surprises in that first round. Got some Dynasty League questions to get to and

1:16.2

a question about Chris Paddock as we get another half season of information about him and the

1:22.0

direction he is going in. So lots of ground to cover. The first question I'll have to ask,

1:27.0

Eno, how was the Wiffleball game on Sunday?

1:30.3

It was so much fun.

1:33.4

We had one game that was actually kind of a nine-inning game that was, I think it was like eight on eight.

1:42.2

It was almost like a real baseball game other than the fact that Lindsey Jones are one of our NFL reporter her like two or

1:50.5

three-year-old daughter was one of the one of the what's on our team and with the

1:55.4

special rules that we put in place for her was kind of an automatic score every

1:59.5

every time she went up.

2:01.6

So we had people, like Bill Shakin was out there.

2:06.6

He's a writer for in LA, Anaheim, and every time she ran first, if she made contact,

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