Dick Allen & Dave Parker to Cooperstown -- Day 1 from the Winter Meetings
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR are in Dallas for Day 1 of the Winter Meetings with a trio of excellent guests! Jayson Stark of The Athletic joins the show to discuss Dick Allen & Dave Parker, who were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Classic Baseball Era Non-Players Committee on Sunday. Plus, Brewers manager Pat Murphy, and Mariners Vice President/Assistant General Manager Andy McKay discuss their paths into their respective roles and the critically important role of soft skills in their positions.
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3:17 Jayson Stark Interview Begins
35:23 Pat Murphy Interview Begins
49:58 Andy McKay Interview Begins
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, December 9th, officially day one of the winter meetings here at the Hilton Anatol in Dallas. |
| 0:18.5 | Feels like we've been here for a week already, you know, and I mean that in a good way, |
| 0:21.8 | because of the emergency pod and Juan Soto and all the stuff we covered on Sunday night. |
| 0:26.3 | Oh, my God, it's been a world win. |
| 0:28.2 | I mean, last night we had to, you know, cover some of the biggest news we've had in a long time |
| 0:33.7 | in baseball. |
| 0:34.2 | And I think that there's a, you know, talking to people in the lobby, |
| 0:38.8 | there have been people from different teams that have said, you know, we're glad to have gotten |
| 0:42.7 | that out of the way because now the other shoes can drop. And there's a decent sort of optimistic |
| 0:50.0 | feeling that we're going to see more smaller moves now that teams know what their budget is. |
| 0:56.7 | They don't have Juan Soto on their budget, and the trades can start happening. |
| 1:02.7 | I mean, if you're going to build Juan Soto in the aggregate, it may take some trades, |
| 1:06.7 | it may take some signings, it may take some work. |
| 1:08.7 | So, yeah, I think there's going to be a little bit more on the way. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, even if Juan Soto wasn't really on your flow chart, he was on enough team's flow charts where it was impacting everything. So it's great that that signing happened when it did. A few moves have happened since. We're going to push those to our Tuesday episodes. So Alex Cobb is headed to the Tigers, Blake Trinan is back with the Dodgers, |
| 1:11.1 | Jordan Romano goes to the Tigers, Blake Trinan is back |
| 1:28.3 | with the Dodgers, Jordan Romano goes to the Phillies, all that is something we're going to get to |
| 1:32.7 | on Tuesday when we probably have more moves to talk about. The big news that was overshadowed by |
| 1:38.2 | the Soto signing on Sunday was the addition of Dick Allen and Dave Parker to Baseball's Hall of Fame. They were |
| 1:47.3 | elected by the classic baseball era non-players committee. So we have some guests. This is the new |
| 1:53.6 | thing we do. We come to the winter meetings, a new tradition that we started last year. We |
| 1:56.8 | try to bring in as many of the great minds that are here as we possibly can. |
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